The social construction of intellectual disability.
Rapley, Mark.
Cambridge U. Pr.
2004
246 pages
$95.00
Hardcover
HV3004

Rapley (psychology, Murdoch U.) examines in detail the professionalized understandings of people described as intellectually disabled, and analyzes social interactions between them and members of the helping professions in which professional estimation and management of their capacities and capabilities occurs. He emphasizes that the brand of social construction used here, discursive psychology, has roots in ethnomethodology and conversion analysis, and is quite unlike social construction in other fields. Some of the material has been published in earlier form as journal articles.

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