Written by one of the field’s leading researchers, Disability and the Sociological Imagination is the first true undergraduate text for the relatively new and growing area of sociology of disability. The text discusses the major theorists, research methods, and bodies of knowledge that represents sociology’s key contributions to our understanding of disability.

Disability and the Sociological Imagination

Politics & Social Sciences

Carey, Allison C.

Social Sciences

Sage Publications, Inc.

Allies and Obstacles: Disability Activism and Parents of Children with Disabilities

Parents of children with disabilities often situate their activism as a means of improving the world for their child. However, some disabled activists perceive parental activism as working against the independence and dignity of people with disabilities. This thorny relationship is at the heart of the groundbreaking Allies and Obstacles. 
The authors chronicle parents’ path-breaking advocacy in arenas such as the right to education and to liberty via deinstitutionalization as well as how they engaged in legal and political advocacy. Allies and Obstacles provides a macro analysis of parent activism using a social movement perspective to reveal and analyze the complex—and often tense—relationship of parents to disability rights organizations and activism. 
The authors look at organizational and individual narratives using four case studies that focus on intellectual disability, psychiatric diagnoses, autism, and a broad range of physical disabilities including cerebral palsy and muscular dystrophy. These cases explore the specific ways in which activism developed among parents and people with disabilities, as well as the points of alliance and the key points of contestation. Ultimately, Allies and Obstacles develops new insights into disability activism, policy, and the family.

Block, Pamela

Scotch, Richard

Sociology

Temple University Press

Parents of children with disabilities often situate their activism as a means of improving the world for their child. However, some disabled activists perceive parental activism as working against the independence and dignity of people with disabilities. This thorny relationship is at the heart of the groundbreaking Allies and Obstacles.The authors chronicle parents' path-breaking advocacy in arenas such as the right to education and to liberty via deinstitutionalization as well as how they engaged in legal and political advocacy. Allies and Obstacles provides a macro analysis of parent activism using a social movement perspective to reveal and analyze the complex--and often tense--relationship of parents to disability rights organizations and activism.&nbsp;The authors look at organizational and individual narratives using four case studies that focus on intellectual disability, psychiatric diagnoses, autism, and a broad range of physical disabilities including cerebral palsy and muscular dystrophy. These cases explore the specific ways in which activism developed among parents and people with disabilities, as well as the points of alliance and the key points of contestation. Ultimately, Allies and Obstacles develops new insights into disability activism, policy, and the family.

On the Margins of Citizenship: Intellectual Disability and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century America

The history of civil rights for people with intellectual disabilities in 20th century America

History

Americas

A sociological history of the fight for civil rights for people with intellectual disabilities. Allison Carey develops a relational practice approach to the issues of intellectual disability &amp; civil rights, looking at how advocacy has progressed over the course of the past century.

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Disability and the Sociological Imagination

Allies and Obstacles: Disability Activism and Parents of Children with Disabilities

Allies and Obstacles: Disability Activism and Parents of Children with Disabilities

On the Margins of Citizenship: Intellectual Disability and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century America

On the Margins of Citizenship: Intellectual Disability and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century America