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Sociology looking at disability : what did we know and when did we know it / edited by Sara E. Green, Sharon N. Barnartt.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Research in social science and disability ; v. 9.
- Research in social science and disability, 1479-3547 ; v. 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- People with disabilities.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxiii, 291 pages).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- United Kingdom : Emerald, 2017.
- Summary:
- The purpose of this volume is to explore existing literature, with an eye towards encouraging scholars not to ask "the same old" questions but to use older writings as a basis for revolutionary and evolutionary thinking. What do the older writings tell us about what questions we should be asking, and what research we should be doing, today?
- Contents:
- Prelims
- Invisibility, visibility, vilification, and near silence: the framing of disability in the early years of the American sociological society
- How erving goffman affected perceptions of disability within sociology
- Managing the emotions of reading goffman: erving goffman and spencer cahill looking at disability
- Conceptual issues in disability: saad nagis contribution to the disability knowledge base
- Back to the future: Irving K. Zolas contributions to the sociology of disability
- Bringing our bodies and ourselves back in: seeing Irving Kenneth Zolas legacy
- A messy trajectory: from medical sociology to crip theory
- The sociology of deafness: a literature review of the disciplinary history
- Renaming the wheel: social model constructs in older sociological literature
- The sibling disability experience: an analysis of studies concerning non-impaired siblings of individuals with disabilities from 1960 to 1990
- Struggles and joys: a review of research on the social experience of parenting disabled children
- About the authors.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- OCLC:
- 967224629
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