Relationships with Severely Disabled People: The Social Construction of Humanness

1989 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Bogdan ◽  
Steven J. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
The Social

Easy targets: a disability rights perspective on the 'children as carers' debate

1995 ◽  
Vol 15 (44-45) ◽  
pp. 36-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lois Keith ◽  
Jenny Morris
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Young Carers ◽  
Pressure Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

This article looks at how the children of disabled parents are being defined as 'young carers', arguing that the way in which this is hap pening undermines both the rights of children and the rights of disabled people, Analysis of the social construction of 'children as carers' illustrates that researchers and pressure groups are colluding with the government's insistence that 'care in the community' must mean 'care by the community'.

scholarly journals Yes, we fuck! Challenging the misfit sexual body through disabled women’s narratives

Sexualities ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Cristina Santos ◽  
Ana Lúcia Santos
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Biomedical Model ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Linear Character ◽  
Women's Narratives ◽  
Feminist Disability Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Disabled Women ◽  
Intimate Life

Southern European society has been described in sociological literature as ableist, patriarchal and male-oriented. Under such conditions, many disabled women face multiple oppressions on grounds of gender, disability, class, age, sexual orientation, ‘race’ and ethnicity. The social construction of the impaired body as passive and dependent is conducive to a process of desexualization, presenting disabled people as inadequate for a full intimate life. The dominant biomedical model reinforces this process. This article draws on selected works in feminist disability studies to argue that rather than a body which is unfit, or does not fit, the ‘misfit’ is instead a cultural failure in accommodating and cherishing diversity. The authors also suggest that the desexualization of disabled women is replicating, as well as resulting from, historical tendencies to dehumanize and infantilize women. The empirical data is drawn from a larger project ‘Disabled Intimacies? Sexual and Reproductive Citizenship of Disabled Women in Portugal’. Biographical narrative interviews with disabled women are analyzed to explore the notion of ‘misfit’ sexual bodies. Theirs are stories of counter-norms and the struggle for sexual fulfilment and recognition. The women’s discussions of sexuality point to a need to change the ways that disability and intimacy are addressed in mainstream scholarly literature, institutions and the state. Narrow, heteronormative and ableist understandings of sexual intercourse and the linear character of mainstream stories of intimacy are shown as hindering the prospect of the recognition of disabled women as sexual citizens.

Relationships with Severely Disabled People: The Social Construction of Humanness

1989 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Bogdan ◽  
Steven J. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Dis-Equality: Exploring the Juxtaposition of Disability and Equality

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-17
Author(s):  
Bronagh Byrne
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
Complex Forms ◽  
Rules Of The Game ◽  
The Way

The (in)equality issues facing disabled people are extensive and long-enduring. The way(s) in which equality is conceptualised has important consequences for understandings of disability. The ambiguity of what I call <em>dis-equality</em> theory is two-fold; the apparent failure of mainstream equality theorising in, firstly, embracing disability concepts at all, and secondly, in fully incorporating the logistics of disability, particularly in relation to the social construction of such. Practices of institutional and more complex forms of discrimination are part of those deeper structures of domination and oppression which maintain disabled people in positions of disadvantage. Everyday practices, in the ‘ordinary order of things’ (Bourdieu, 2000), continue to be misrecognised as natural and taken for granted. This article critically explores the complexity of <em>dis-equality</em> theorising utilising a Bourdieusian lens which explicitly incorporates complex and subtle forms of discrimination, and by examining the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’ approach to equality. I argue that the way forward for <em>dis-equality</em> theorising in today’s rights based era must be one that considers the nuances of the ‘rules of the game’ (Young, 1990) if it is to be effective in challenging the inequalities to which disabled people have long been subject.

The Social Construction of Our Bodies

1992 ◽  
Vol 37 (11) ◽  
pp. 1186-1186
Author(s):  
Garth J. O. Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
The Social

The social construction of wisdom judgments

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara DeFilippo
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
The Social

The social construction of stay-at-home fathering across everyday spaces.

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-205
Author(s):  
Heidi Mattila
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
The Social ◽  
At Home

The Social Construction of a Perfect Market: The Strawberry Auction at Fontaines-en-Sologne

2010 ◽  
pp. 73-89
Author(s):  
M.-F. Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Invisible Hand ◽  
The Social ◽  
Per Se

The article examines social conditions and mechanisms of the emergence in 1982 of a «Dutch» strawberry auction in Fontaines-en-Sologne, France. Empirical study of this case shows that perfect market does not arise per se due to an «invisible hand». It is a social construction, which could only be put into effect by a hard struggle between stakeholders and large investments of different forms of capital. Ordinary practices of the market dont differ from the predictions of economic theory, which is explained by the fact that economic theory served as a frame of reference for the designers of the auction. Technological and spatial organization as well as principal rules of trade was elaborated in line with economic views of perfect market resulting in the correspondence between theory and reality.

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