Exploring Disability
A Sociological Introduction
Published on 23. May 1999
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-7456-1477-9 (ISBN)
Description
This is an exciting new introductory textbook for anyone studying disability. As well as providing an excellent overview of the existing literature in the area, the book also develops an understanding of disability that has implications for both sociology and society.Over the last three decades our understanding of disability has changed dramatically. Once perceived as a largely medical problem affecting only a small number of people, it is now regarded as a major social and political issue. Exploring Disability charts both the traditional and contemporary approaches to the area before focusing on the social model of disability. In a series of chapters, the authors then go on to look at the relationship between disabled people and areas such as medical sociology, disability studies, social policy, politics and culture. The book ends with an exploration of the future of theory and research on disability.Exploring Disability will be indispensable for students seeking to understand disability within sociology, disability studies, social policy, politics, cultural studies, and health-related disciplines including medicine.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
notes, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
623 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7456-1477-9 (9780745614779)
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Other editions
New editions
Colin Barnes | Geof Mercer
Exploring Disability
Book
03/2010
2nd Edition
Polity Press
€70.50
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Content
1. Introduction. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. Enter Disability Theory. New ways of analysing disability. Developing a social theory of disability. Review. 5. Disabling Barriers. The disabled family. Education. Employment. Built environment, housing and transport. Review. 6. Social Policy and Disabled People. Disability and the welfare state. Social security policy. Social support in the community. Review. 7. Politics and Disability Politics. Politics and disabled people. Disability protest: a new social movement? Identity politics. Review. 8. Culture, Leisure and the Media. Sociological approaches to culture. Leisure and social life. Cultural representations of disability. Towards a disability culture. Review. 9. Advancing the Sociology of Disability. Theory: Out with the old and in with the new? Disabling research. Life chances. Moving forward. Bibliography. Index.