Studying Disability

Multiple Theories and Responses

Elizabeth DePoy, Stephen French Gilson

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN: 9781412975766
• eBook ISBN: 9781452215693
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

Presenting fully integrative text covering disability from a variety of disciplines

This innovative text first reviews existing theories, then sets forth a new viewpoint that incorporates elements from disability studies, sociology, human services, rehabilitation counseling, and public health. Authors Elizabeth DePoy and Stephen French Gilson explore the history of disability with a focus on both Western and non-Western cultures, examine the historical conceptions of disability and how they have affected the lives and civil rights of the disabled, and explore a wide range of both classic and new and emerging theories. The book concludes with a section on application of theory to practice and policy in the professional and public realm and the recommendation of a socially just community.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Preface
• PART I: Foundations
• 1 - Foundations
• 2 - Looking Back
• 3 - Disability in the 20th and 21st Centuries
• PART II: Description and Explanation
• 4 - The Descriptive Element of Explanatory Legitimacy Theory
• 5 - Explanations Introduced
• 6 - Longitudinal Explanations
• 7 - Environmental Explanations
• 8 - Categorical Explanations
• 9 - Systems Explanations
• 10 - Contemporary and Emerging Explanations
• PART III: Legitimacy
• 11 - Legitimacy—What Is It?
• 12 - Who Is a Legitimate Category Member?
• 13 - Legitimate Humanities Responses
• 14 - Legitimate Social Science Responses
• 15 - Legitimate Professional Responses
• PART IV: Fashioning Communities
• 16 - Integrative Academic-Professional Stance Through Disjuncture Theory
• 17 - A Model of Community Legitimacy
• References
• Index
• About the Authors