For the past 50 years, social construction of illness has become a major research perspective as a subfield of medical sociology, which contributed to our social understanding and dimensions of illness. Illness and social constructionism developed to be a conceptual framework that emphasizes the cultural and historical aspects of phenomena widely thought to be absulutly natural.
While the medical model, assumes that diseases are universal phenomena and invariant to time or place. Social constructionism explains how individuals and groups contribute to the social meaning of a disease or the biological condition, it also focus on how the meaning and experience of illness is shaped by individual cultural and surrounding social system (Brown
While the medical model, assumes that diseases are universal phenomena and invariant to time or place. Social constructionism explains how individuals and groups contribute to the social meaning of a disease or the biological condition, it also focus on how the meaning and experience of illness is shaped by individual cultural and surrounding social system (Brown