Introduction: The Formation of
                        Disability Studies

Albrecht, Gary L.; Seelman, Katherine D.; Bury, Michael

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“…In the standard literature on welfare programs and the welfare state it is emphasized that classification of disability has become one of the major paths to assistance in most welfare countries today (see e.g. Abberley 2002, Albrecht, Seelman & Bury 2001, Drake 1999, Lane 1992, Stone 1985. Perhaps this can explain why these countries have the largest amount of disabled people in society (see Fujiura & Rutkowski-Kmitta 2001:78Á79)?…”

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Creating the Disabled Person: A Case Study of Recruitment to “Work-for-the-Disabled” Programs

Holmqvist

2008

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

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This paper reports on how the National Employment Office in Sweden creates the disabled person by recruiting them to work-for-the-disabled programs. As a rule, job applicants who are classified as ''disabled'' do not consider themselves as such, but they are encouraged to become disabled by adopting the organization's norms, rules and routines, which specify what is expected of them as disabled if they are to be assisted to find a job. Disability is, in other words, a learned social role enacted in a particular organizational context. It is argued that the full implications of a radical constructionist approach to the problem of disability have not yet been tapped in the standard sociological conversation on disability. The potential of society to formally enact anyone as disabled, irrespective of his or her medical and biological condition, raises a number of important social and political questions.

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Creating the Disabled Person: A Case Study of Recruitment to “Work-for-the-Disabled” Programs

Holmqvist

2008

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

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“…Over the last 40 years, British disability studies has been premised on the view that disability, including childhood disability, is a sociological issue rejecting any understanding of disability that locates disability as a problem originating within the person (Albrecht, Seelman, and Bury 2001). In this way, disability studies distinguishes itself from childhood studies that so often focuses on individual, typical, child development.…”

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Disabled children’s childhood studies: a distinct approach?

Curran

Runswick‐Cole

2014

Disability & Society

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This paper suggests that the emergence of disabled children's childhood studies as an area of study offers a distinct approach to inquiry; it represents a significant shift away from the long-standing deficit discourses of disabled childhoods that have dominated western culture and its reaches. On the one hand, contemporary childhood studies contest normative, Eurocentric mantras around the 'standard child'; while on the other, disability studies critique the medical discourses and the scope of its authority. However, while drawing on these two approaches, disabled children's childhood studies provide more than this combined critique. In disabled children's childhood studies, disabled children are not viewed as necessarily having problems or being problems, but as having childhoods.

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“…1 For a sample of important major works in the field of disability studies, though by no means exhaustive, see: Albrecht et al (2001), Corker and Shakespeare (2002), Davis (2002), Linton (1998), Mitchell and Snyder (2006), Oliver et al (2002). 2 A representative but non-exhaustive sampling of work employing a similar perspective would include, most notably, the work of Clifford Geertz, the pieces found in Philip Smith's The New American Cultural Sociology (1998) which cover a broad array of topics, and especially, Jeffrey Alexander's collection of essays titled Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology (2003).…”

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Narratives of Disability and the Movement from Deficiency to Difference

Gray

2009

Cultural Sociology

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In this article, I argue that the study of disability would be thoroughly enriched if the insights offered by cultural sociology as well as recent work on civil society were applied to it. I illustrate this point by offering my own interpretation of contrasting discourses of disability and their relationship to major narrative frameworks of disability. I describe how these narrative frameworks are dependent on a symbolic code that distinguishes between the abilities and inabilities of the physical body.

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Introduction: The Formation of Disability Studies

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Creating the Disabled Person: A Case Study of Recruitment to “Work-for-the-Disabled” Programs

Creating the Disabled Person: A Case Study of Recruitment to “Work-for-the-Disabled” Programs

Disabled children’s childhood studies: a distinct approach?

Narratives of Disability and the Movement from Deficiency to Difference

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