Cloak of Competence, Revised and Updated Edition

Name: Cloak of Competence, Revised and Updated Edition
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ISBN: 9780520082267

ISBN-10: 0520082265

ISBN-13: 9780520082267

Edition: 2nd 1993 (Revised)

Authors: Robert B. Edgerton

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This new edition brings up to date a classic study of the everyday lives of previously institutionalized people with mental retardation. For the first time, the author allowed these people to speak about their own lives, their fears, and their hopes. He focused on the role of stigma in their lives and their efforts to pass as normal, as well as the need they had for normal benefactors. Now, using the same ethnographic methods, Robert Edgerton follows up the original population over a period of three decades. His new findings greatly expand our knowledge of these individuals, suggesting that as they grow older they increase their social competence, life satisfaction, independence, and…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/16/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 276
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.89" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Acknowledgments for the Revised Edition


Introduction to the Revised Edition


Foreword


Preface



The Study and Its Background



Detailed Portraits of Selected Persons



Some Central Concerns of "Life on the Outs"



Passing and Denial: The Problem of Seeming To Be Normal



The Benevolent Conspiracy: The Role of the Benefactor



Stigma and the Cloak of Competence



The Follow-up Studies



Conclusion


Bibliography


Index