Social Construction of Intellectual Disability PDF
by Mark Rapley
Description
Intellectual disability is usually thought of as a form of internal, individual affliction, little different from diabetes, paralysis or chronic illness.
This study, the first book-length application of discursive psychology to intellectual disability, shows that what we usually understand as being an individual problem is actually an interactional, or social, product.
Through a range of case studies, which draw upon ethnomethodological and conversation analytic scholarship, the book shows how persons categorized as 'intellectually disabled' are produced, as such, in and through their moment-by-moment interaction with care staff and other professionals.
Mark Rapley extends and reformulates current work in disability studies and offers a reconceptualisation of intellectual disability as both a professionally ascribed diagnostic category and an accomplished - and contested - social identity.
Importantly, the book is grounded in data drawn from naturally-occurring, rather than professionally orchestrated, social interaction.
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- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:10/06/2004
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- ISBN:9780511206993
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:10/06/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780511206993