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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      20 October 2009
      10 June 2004
      ISBN:
      9780511489884
      9780521005296
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511489884
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      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.42kg, 260 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social Psychology, Personality Psychology and Individual Differences, Psychology
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    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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    ’The book presents a timely challenge to our profession. Mark Rapley's writing just gets better: make sure you get the chance to learn from him.’

    Source: Clinical Psychology

    '… this is an excellent book. It is a timely reminder in an intellectual domain becoming increasingly deadlocked by polarising debate of the need for detailed empirical analysis.'

    Source: Disability & Society

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