Exploring Disability A Sociological Introduction

Name: Exploring Disability A Sociological Introduction
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ISBN: 9780745614786

ISBN-10: 0745614787

ISBN-13: 9780745614786

Edition: 1999

Authors: Colin Barnes, Geoffrey Mercer, Tom Shakespeare

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Description:

An introductory textbook for anyone studying disability. This book provides an overview of the existing literature in the area, and develops an understanding of disability that has implications for both sociology and society.

Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 8/10/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English




Introduction



Understanding Disability


What a difference a decade makes! Developing a sociological imagination


Comparative and historical perspectives


A tale of two models


Sociological issues and approaches


Review



Sociological Approaches to Chronic Illness and Disability


Sick role behaviour


Labelling theory


Experience of 'chronic illness and disability'


Medical and professional power


Medicalization


Towards a sociology of the disabled body?


Review



Enter Disability Theory


New ways of analysing disability


Developing a social theory of disability


Review



Disabling Barriers


The disabled family


Education


Employment


Built environment, housing and transport


Review



Social Policy and Disabled People


Disability and the welfare state


Social security policy


Social support in the community


Review



Politics and Disability Politics


Politics and disabled people


Disability protest: a new social movement?


Identity politics


Review



Culture, Leisure and the Media


Sociological approaches to culture


Leisure and social life


Cultural representations of disability


Towards a disability culture


Review



Advancing the Sociology of Disability


Theory: Out with the old and in with the new?


Disabling research


Life chances


Moving forward


Bibliography


Index