Mark Rapley

The Social Construction of Intellectual Disability

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Produktbeschreibung

A range of case studies, drawing upon ethnomethodological and conversation analytic scholarship, reveals how persons categorized as "intellectually disabled" are actually defined through their interaction with care staff and other professionals. Intellectual disability is usually thought of as a form of internal, individual affliction, differing little from diabetes, paralysis or chronic illness. This study's application of discursive psychology to intellectual disability demonstrates that what is usually understood as being an individual problem is actually an interactional or social product.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 427g
• ISBN-13: 9780521005296
• ISBN-10: 0521005299
• Artikelnr.: 22035796

Autorenporträt

Mark Rapley is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Murdoch University. His work applies discursive psychology to questions of power, in particular the interactional and rhetorical production of persons with intellectual disabilities, the 'mentally ill' and Aboriginal Australians. His most recent books are Quality of Life Research: A Critical Introduction (2003) and, with Susan Hansen and Alex McHoul, Beyond Help: A Consumer's Guide to Psychology (2003).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
A note on the cover
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 a smart strategy
4. Matters of identity
5. Talk to dogs, infants and...
6. A deviant case (co-written with Alec McHoul)
7. Some tentative conclusions
Appendices.