The social construction of intellectual disability / / Mark Rapley [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Rapley Mark
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 362.2/0422
• Soggetto topico: People with mental disabilities; Social interaction; Group identity
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-237) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; 2 Intellectual disability as diagnostic and social category; 3 The interactional production of 'dispositional' characteristics: or why saying 'yes' to one's interrogators may be smart strategy; 4 Matters of identity; 5 Talk to dogs, infants and...; 6 A deviant case...; 7 Some tentative conclusions; Appendix 1 Current definitions of mental retardation/intellectual disability ; Appendix 2 Frequently asked questions about mental retardation and the AAMR definitionReferences; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The social construction of intellectual disability
• ISBN: 1-107-14408-6; 1-280-54015-X; 0-511-21417-0; 0-511-21596-7; 0-511-21059-0; 0-511-48988-9; 0-511-31494-9; 0-511-21236-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457745103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II