Disability Studies: what`s the point?
- Autores: Colin Barnes
- Localización: Intersticios: Revista sociológica de pensamiento crítico, ISSN-e 1887-3898, Vol. 1, Nº. 1, 2007 (Ejemplar dedicado a: ¿Pensamiento en crisis?), págs. 50-58
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The profoundly disabling tendencies of modern society were downplayed and or over looked completely. The policy outcomes of these approaches allowed politicians, professionals and practitioners; either, to adopt an exclusively traditional individual approach to the problem of �disability� or, to espouse a more liberal inter-relational agenda similar to what Miller and Gwynne termed an �enlightened guardianship� perspective way back in 1972. Thus, allowing them to vacillate between individual and collective solutions to the �disability� issue.
In fact, �disability� can be identified as a complex and pernicious form of social oppression or institutional discrimination that pervades every aspect of modern living. It is important to remember here what the social model actually is. A model is what social scientists call a �heuristic device� or an aid to understanding
