Plastic Surgery

Liposuction, rhinoplasty, breast implants. These are common procedures… for teenagers? In this paper, I will show how teenage plastic surgery has been constructed as a social problem. Many of the usual elements in problem construction, such as statistics and the quadrangle of claims-makers, have been used in establishing this as a problem. Their significance in establishing this problem will be discussed.

Claims-makers are essential to constructing a social problem. Claims are made by various people, who for the most part, fall into four categories. This "iron quadrangle" is composed of activists, the experts, media, and the government (Best 63). I did not fully look into it, however I did not find legislation made on teenage plastic surgery. The other three sectors of this quadrangle, however, play active roles in the construction of teenage plastic surgery as a social problem.

Activists involved in this issue belong to various groups. They include feminists, other advocates of women's rights, and even people who work against domestic abuse. One claims-maker is Joanna Briscoe, a "post-feminist designer dyke babe novelist." She claims that the power of female be

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Approximate Word count = 1755
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)