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Disability and society : emerging issues and insights / edited by Len Barton.

Contributor(s): Barton, Len.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Longman sociology series.Publisher: Harlow : Longman, 1996Description: xii, 265 p. ; 22 cm + pbk.ISBN: 0582291666.Subject(s): Sociology of disabilityDDC classification: 362.4
Contents:
Part one: Theoretical developments -- Part two: Disability and education -- Part three: Disability, charities, normalisation and representation -- Part four: Disability: a particular research method.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The study of disability has traditionally been influenced mainly by medical and psychological models. The aim of this new text, Disability and Society, is to open up the debate by introducing alternative perspectives reflecting the increasing sociological interest in this important topic.

Disability and Society brings together for the first time some of the most recent original research in this rapidly expanding area. The contributors, both disabled and non-disabled, are all leading thinkers in their field and suggest new ways of understanding disability, developing policy and challenging current practice.


Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part one: Theoretical developments -- Part two: Disability and education -- Part three: Disability, charities, normalisation and representation -- Part four: Disability: a particular research method.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction
  • Part 1 Theoretical Developments
  • 1 Sociology and Disability Setting the context
  • 2 A Sociology of disability or disabled sociology?
  • 3 Theories of disability and the origins of the oppression of disabled people in western society
  • 4 Work, Utopia and impairement
  • Part 2 Disability and Education
  • 5 Theorising special educational needs in a changing political climate
  • 6 Clauses of conditionality: 'The Reasonable' accommodation of language
  • 7 Reflecting on researching disability and higher education
  • Part 3 Disability, Charities, Normalisation and Representation
  • 8 A critique of the role of the traditional charities
  • 9 Beyond normalisation but not Utopia
  • 10 Power and prejudice: issues of gender, sexuality and disability
  • 11 The Politics of disability identity
  • Part 4 Disability: A Particular Research Method
  • 12 Sounds of still voices: issues of use of narrative methods with people who have learning difficulties
  • Index