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autism, especially in the last thirty years, when its prevalence has risen dramatically. Within sociology, the focus has been on autism’s distribution within populations (King et al. 2006), social risk factors for receiving a diagnosis (Liu, King, and Bearman 2010), and how changes
Aug 1, 2018 · Social scientists have tended to grant the topic of autism to the domain of psychology; as a result autistic perception has been stigmatized resulting in the exclusion of autistic perspectives in ...
Recognizing that people with autism are integral for studies and scholarship to have integrity a critical approach, such as defined as critical autism studies comes from the examination of power dynamics that operate in discourses of autism, question deficit‐based definitions of autism and consider ways in which biology and culture intersect to construct “disability” (Waltz, 2014).
- Jessica A Leveto, Ph.D.
- Acknowledgments
- The “I” and the “Me”
- The Looking-Glass Self
- Socialization and Self-Presentation
- Participants
- Instrument
- Autism and the Self: A Sociological Approach
- First-hand Accounts of Empathy and Autism
- The Looking-Glass Self
- Taking the Role of Other as Impression Management
- Chapter Six: Conclusion
- Results and Limitations
- Suggestions for Future Research
- APPENDIX B: Interview Guide
First, I would like to thank Dr. Jerry Daday. Without your encouragement and guidance, I would not have applied for graduate studies. I would also like to thank Michael Roberts whose love and support allowed me to transform my biggest dreams into plans. Next, I would like to thank my committee: Dr. Amy Krull, Dr. Douglas Smith, and Dr. Steve Groc...
We often think of the self as something inherent in the individual. Many people understand the “self” as an immutable core component of a person that is relatively stable. Symbolic Interactionism offers a distinct view of the self as a process that actors create and recreate through verbal and nonverbal interaction. William James first articulated ...
Unlike psychological social psychological theories of self-development, symbolic interactionism views the self as a process that develops through interaction rather than as a result of physical maturation. If we are not born with selves and they are not biologically triggered at a particular developmental stage what is the process that produces sel...
Goffman saw the self as a performed character—a representation, not an organic thing. He believed that the self “arises diffusely from a scene that is presented” and notes that “the crucial concern is whether it will be credited or discredited.” For Goffman, authenticity is rooted fundamentally in how we act and how others respond to those actions ...
IRB approval was obtained from Western Kentucky University. Purposive sampling was utilized to collect data from individuals who have been identified as autistic and can verbalize their perspectives. Permission was obtained from the directors of two student resource centers for students diagnosed along the autism spectrum at a state university to d...
Interview questions were developed to assess autistic perceptions of self and experiences associated with socialization. Symbolic interactionism holds that selves develop through interaction. A classic instrument used to evaluate the self was Manford Kuhn and the Iowa School’s Twenty Statements Test (TST). This test was later simplified (McPhail an...
The “I” and the “Me” Psychological social psychologists and symbolic interactionists agree that pronoun use is indicative of self-processes. This section will briefly describe the “I” and “Me” concepts emergent in one respondent’s speech. Brevity is justified and appropriate because the reflexive relationship of taking one’s self as both subject an...
Since Theory of Mind suggests that autism prevents cognitive empathy and symbolic interactionism has not, then it was likely that empathic understanding would be found throughout autistic actors’ experiences and self-descriptions. In fact, this alleged lack of empathy has been especially contested by autistic activists and scholars. During the anal...
Succinctly, the looking glass self means that we learn to see ourselves through the “reflections” of others. For Cooley, the archaic English word for mirror is nothing more than a metaphor for objective self-awareness. Theory of Mind or the inability to infer others states of mind would seem to prevent the looking-glass self process and the thus th...
Another relevant issue emergent in the data involves autistic actors’ management of disclosing their diagnosis. Failure or reluctance to disclose an ASD diagnosis should be regarded as an effort to protect and control both internal self-concept and the external evaluations of self. It is an effort to control the definition of the situation and an e...
I undertook this study because of dual interest in microsociological concepts of the self and an interest in studying how inequality is perpetuated through language. Since the term autism first appeared, it has carried with it assumptions that autistic people are not just not “normal” people but that lack key elements of humanity. Generalizations a...
Like most research concerning autism, it was beyond the scope of this study to examine education, racial, or gender differences. This is due to the fact that women/girls and racial/ethnic minorities are less likely to be diagnosed. Moreover, diagnosis is costly which serves as a class barrier to understanding for the family and any subsequent suppo...
A sociological framework toward ASDs is necessary to examine the interactional processes between autistic and non-autistic people specifically in interactions with medical and education professionals. When it comes to the study of autistic selfhood we need to examine the discourse surrounding what selves are and examine what interactional processes...
If someone asked me who you were, what would you want me to tell them? Why? Tell me about your life as a college student? Where do you live? What is your room like? Why? In what ways is your life different from when you lived at home? What is your first/earliest memory? Tell me about your life as a child and your family? Who did you live with? Who ...
- Jessica Nashia Simpson
- 2018
Oct 11, 2018 · While acknowledging these limitations, we feel that the issue of accuracy is relevant given the powerful impact of media on societal beliefs and attitudes; that is, a grossly inaccurate portrayal ...
Accepted draft, forthcoming in Philosophical Psychology. The Reality of Autism: on the metaphysics of disorder and diversity . Abstract: Typically, although it’s notoriously hard to define, autism has been represented as a biologically-based mental disorder that can be usefully investigated by biomedical science.
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Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 2019. Autism spectrum conditions represent a broad range of behavioral, cognitive, and neurological atypicalities. As both a social and a medical category, autism is dynamic and unstable, and, although its usefulness is rarely contested, its ontological status is frequently under debate.
