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Social Problems and Social Policy

Introduction to Overweight and Obesity in Australia

To understand the concept of ‘social problems’ for which we do not have any affirmative definition, it is easy to relate it with the social constructionist approach.[1]This approach is based on societal analysis of how any problem is perceived to be problematic and what kind of problem is it understood to be. For example in some parts of the world drinking and driving do not match up. Hence it is punishable by law and the convict is looked social ignominy. There is a phenomenon what tells about human behaviour. It is devised by an artist Susannah Hertrich, who through her art differentiated between 'actual hazard' and 'public outrage.'[2] She elaborated this novel concept through some diagrams. So to interpret, a social problem which might be a problem for one kind of humans may not be the same for the other kind. That she termed it to be ....