Questions of Competence: Culture, Classification and Intellectual Disability - Brossura

Jenkins, Richard

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521626625 ISBN 13: 9780521626620

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1999

Riassunto

This book offers a conceptualisation of intellectual disability emphasising its cultural variability and social construction.

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Descrizione del libro

This book advances a conceptualisation of intellectual disability that emphasises its cultural variability and social construction rather than its medicalised, physiological nature. Addressed to disability specialists in the social sciences and medicine, it treats intellectual disability not just as a property of individuals, but also as social phenomenon.

Contenuti

1. Culture, classification and (in)competence Richard Jenkins; 2. Mental disability in the United States: an interactionist perspective Michael V. Angrosino; 3. (In)competence in America in comparative perspective Patrick J. Devlieger; 4. Risk, resilience and competence: parents with learning difficulties and their children Tim Booth and Wendy Booth; 5. Constructing other selves: (in)competence and the category of learning difficulties Charlotte Aull Davies; 6. Work, opportunity and culture: (in)competence in Greece and Wales Sylvia van Maastricht; 7. Slow cookers and madmen: competence of heart and head in rural Uganda Susan Reynolds Whyte; 8. States and categories: indigenous models of personhood in northwest Greenland Mark Nuttall; 9. Learning to become (in)competent: children in Belize speak out Nancy Lundgren; 10. Towards a social model of (in)competence Richard Jenkins.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521626625
• ISBN 13: 9780521626620
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 262
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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