The Social Construction of Intellectual DisabilityIntellectual 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A discursive psychological approach | 8 |
Intellectual disability as diagnostic and social category | 30 |
The interactional production of dispositional characteristics or why saying yes to ones interrogators may be smart strategy | 78 |
Matters of identity | 111 |
Talk to dogs infants and | 142 |
A deviant case | 181 |
Some tentative conclusions | 196 |
Current definitions of mental retardationintellectual disability | 210 |
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