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The Social Construction of Intellectual Disability

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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English
Pages
258

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Social Construction of Intellectual Disability
2009, Cambridge University Press
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The Social Construction of Intellectual Disability
2006, Cambridge University Press
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Social Construction of Intellectual Disability
2004, Cambridge University Press
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Social Construction of Intellectual Disability
2004, Cambridge University Press
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The Social Construction of Intellectual Disability
July 5, 2004, Cambridge University Press
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Social Construction of Intellectual Disability
2004, Cambridge University Press
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The Social Construction of Intellectual Disability
June 28, 2004, Cambridge University Press
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First Sentence

"Intellectual disability is constructed in both 'official' discourses and everyday commonsense as an irretrievable 'disorder' of competence afflicting individual subjects, requiring professional diagnosis, treatment and management."

Classifications

Library of Congress
HV3004 .R36 2004

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
258
Dimensions
9 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
Weight
1.2 pounds

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7755172M
ISBN 10
0521809002
ISBN 13
9780521809009
Goodreads
2870570

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