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The social construction of intellectual disability

Rapley Mark

The social construction of intellectual disability - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2004 - 246p x

Contents
Acknowledgements;
A note on the cover;
A note on transcription notation;
Introduction;
1. A discursive psychological approach;
2. Intellectual disability as diagnostic and social category;
3. The interactional production of 'dispositional' characteristics: or why saying 'yes' to one's interrogators may be a smart strategy
4. Matters of identity;
5. Talk to dogs, infants and..
6. A deviant case (co-written with Alec McHoul);
7. Some tentative conclusions;
Appendices.

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1. People With Mental Disabilities2. Social Interaction3. Group Identity

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