Social work concerns social problems .
In recent years, social theorists have suggested that social problems are never self-evident . It takes something more to make them into problems recognized by society and legitimated as issues meriting consideration for public action. The late, great social theorist of the 1950s, C. Wright Mills once defined politics as the process by which private troubles got constructed as social problems . For Blumer, social problems were the product of a process of collective definition . This process involved stages.