Socratic meandering creates a problem (8)
I believe the answer is:
acrostic
'a problem' is the definition.
(acrostic is a kind of problem)
'socratic meandering' is the wordplay.
'meandering' is an anagram indicator.
'socratic' with letters rearranged gives 'ACROSTIC'.
'creates' is the link.
(Other definitions for acrostic that I've seen before include "Word puzzle using initials of lines of poetry" , "Word puzzle using first letters" , "Legal document" , "Puzzle involving leading characters" , "Puzzle spelling out something with first letters" .)