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Dec 16, 2011 · Disabilities like these have been objects of study in sociology, medicine, and policy debates for much longer than they have been subjects of sustained interest in philosophy. These discourses do not tend to define “disability” by way of the sort of rigorous necessary and sufficient conditions philosophers often prefer.
- Disability and Health Care Rationing
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- Disability and Health Care Rationing
Mar 28, 2016 · The social meaning of disability as a distinct category. If there is a single, easy way to define disability, it has yet to be found. Most definitions involve some variation of the terms invoked in the UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled Persons as cited above, that is, a social as well as a bodily component.
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Put simply and crudely the arguments revolve around whether disability is the result of a deficit in an individual or the product of social relations, what are called individual or socio‐medical vs. social models of disability. This distinction is used to define disability studies.
Mar 7, 2017 · Participants' unconscious (implicit) disability attitudes significantly related to their understandings of disability as lacking independence, impairment, and/or in relation to the norm, and their ...
Sociology of Disability: An Emerging Field For most of the history of sociology, disability was primarily discussed in specific subfields, especially medical sociology and the study of deviance (Green & Barnartt, 2016). Medical sociology studies the social constructions and insti-tutional practices related to health, illness, and well-being.
Nov 10, 2021 · This chapter outlines the roots of disability scholarship in sociology and how the sociology of disability subfield positions disability as an axis of inequality. The first part of the chapter argues that sociology is uniquely positioned to understand how disability as a social category is made through institutional structures, larger patterns of exclusion and inclusion, and emphasis on power ...
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Feb 23, 2020 · Disability is a complex and dynamic phenomenon and a highly debated one. It is the conceptual map of sociology of disability, dwelling on aspects like the social history of disability, the society’s perceptions and perspectives on the disabled body and the explanations of disability by theorists, sociologists and activists that help us understand disability.