How are environmental and economic problems shaped by insider claimsmakers? What makes insider claimsmakers effective and how do they frame issues so that outsider claimsmakers are thwarted in their attempts to gain ownership of the issue at hand?

Prompt 4

How do insider claimsmakers operate? First, read chapter 4 of Joel Best’s Social Problems and then watch the attached video. Then answer the following questions: How are environmental and economic problems shaped by insider claimsmakers? What makes insider claimsmakers effective and how do they frame issues so that outsider claimsmakers are thwarted in their attempts to gain ownership of the issue at hand? As you write think about all the different ways that expert discourse that can be challenged and the ways that Exxon’s lobbists effectively challenged outsider scientific efforts to put climate issues as serious social problems to be solved through the their rhetoric, resource mobilization, and reframing of an issue.

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