Constructionist Perspective The terms illness and health are culturally defined (Johnson & Rhodes, 2014). A society defines what it is to be “healthy” or to be “ill”. This theory says that a persons physical or mental condition have no truth. The members of that society only define their condition. An example of this would be the attempt to redefined obesity. Obesity is health risk but society is pushing for people to be more accepting of people that are over weight. This shows how the members of a society help define the condition of people. This helps explain why certain health occurrences could be looked at more/less depending on how that group sees the health outcome. The constructionist perspective also helps to explain why health
