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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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West Nyack :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; A note on the cover illustration; A note on transcription notation; Introduction; 1 A discursive psychological approach; Introduction; Discursive psychology; Nikolas Rose and the history of psychology; Self as category membership; Discursive psychology: fundamental precepts; The scope of the project; 2 Intellectual disability as diagnostic and social category; Preamble; 'Intellectual disability' as a diagnostic category; The invention of 'intellectual disability' as a 'diagnosable disorder'
- Competence, and the 'abilities' of intellectually disabled peopleIntellectual disability as moral category; The social model of disability; A second wave; Problems with the social model; Intellectual disability as social-moral category; In summary; 3 The interactional production of 'dispositional' characteristics: or why saying 'yes' to one's interrogators may be smart strategy; If in doubt say 'yes'?; The establishment of 'acquiescence bias' in the literature; Some difficulties; Critique 1. The questions; Critique 2. The context; Critique 3. The testing situation.
- Pseudo-acquiescence 1. Reformulation of responsesPseudo-acquiescence 2. Shepherding to a 'correct' answer; Pseudo-acquiescence 3. Shepherding to a 'competent' official answer; Pseudo-acquiescence 4. Echoing and backchannel responses; Interviewees' resistance; 4 Matters of identity; Mobilising relations with others; Constructing alternative, 'competent', identities; In summary; 5 Talk to dogs, infants and ... ; Staff-client interaction
- 'babying' and 'parenting'; Instruction-giving; Collaboration/Pedagogy; 6 A deviant case ... ; 7 Some tentative conclusions.
- Constructing 'the person with an intellectual disability'
- 'the tutelage of experts'Another look?; Re-theorising intellectual disability?; Appendix 1 Current definitions of mental retardation/intellectual disability; Appendix 2 Frequently asked questions about mental retardation and the AAMR definition; THE AAMR DEFINITION; KEY CONCEPTS IN DEFINITION; SUPPORTS AND MENTAL RETARDATION; CAUSES OF MENTAL RETARDATION; INSIDE AAMR; References; Index.