The Social Construction of Intellectual Disability
The Social Construction of Intellectual Disability
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USDA range of case studies, drawing upon ethnomethodological and conversation analytic scholarship, reveals how persons categorized as "intellectually disabled" are actually defined through their interaction with care staff and other professionals. Intellectual disability is usually thought of as a form of internal, individual affliction, differing little from diabetes, paralysis or chronic illness. This study's application of discursive psychology to intellectual disability demonstrates that what is usually understood as being an individual problem is actually an interactional or social product.
- First full-length application of discursive psychology to the study of intellectual disability
- Detailed transcripts of actual interaction between professionals and people categorized as 'intellectually disabled'
- Challenges many of the assumptions of disability studies
Reviews & endorsements
'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.' 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.' Disability & Society
Product details
June 2004Paperback
9780521005296
260 pages
228 × 151 × 16 mm
0.42kg
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- A note on the cover
- A note on transcription notation
- Introduction
- 1. A discursive psychological approach
- 2. Intellectual disability as diagnostic and social category
- 3. The interactional production of 'dispositional' characteristics: or why saying 'yes' to one's interrogators may be a smart strategy
- 4. Matters of identity
- 5. Talk to dogs, infants and...
- 6. A deviant case (co-written with Alec McHoul)
- 7. Some tentative conclusions
- Appendices.
