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Social Work with Disabled People
26 May 1983-
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors set the scene for social work and disability: old and new directions, Impairment, disability and research, Relationships and families, Independent Living and Personal Assistance, Vulnerability and Safeguarding.
Abstract: Preface.- Introduction: Setting the Scene.- Social Work and Disability: Old and New Directions.- Impairment, Disability and Research.- Relationships and Families.- Independent Living and Personal Assistance.- Independent Living: The Wider Social Policy and Legal Context.- Independent Living: Vulnerability and Safeguarding.- Conclusion - Future Directions.
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01 Jan 1992
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that research on disability has had little influence on policy and made no contribution to improving the lives of disabled people, and that up to now the process of research production has been alienating both for disabled people and for researchers themselves.
Abstract: This paper will argue that research on disability has had little influence on policy and made no contribution to improving the lives of disabled people. In fact, up to now the process of research production has been alienating both for disabled people and for researchers themselves. Neither positivist nor interpretive paradigms are immune from the characterisation of research as alienation, and hence it is suggested that the only way to produce unalienated research is to change the social relations of research production. This change will require the development of an emancipatory research paradigm and both the development of and agenda for such a paradigm are briefly considered.
1,086Â citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors restate their view of what the social model was and what I see as its potential for improving the lives of disabled people and focus on the unfortunate criticisms of it and the disastrous implications these have had for disabled people.
Abstract: This year marks exactly 30 years since I published a book introducing the social model of disability onto an unsuspecting world and yet, despite the impact this model has had, all we now seem to do is talk about it. While all this chatter did not matter too much when the economy was booming, now it no longer booms it is proving disastrous for many disabled people whose benefits and services are being severely cut back or removed altogether. In the article I restate my view of what the social model was and what I see as its potential for improving the lives of disabled people. Finally I focus on the unfortunate criticisms of it and the disastrous implications these have had for disabled people.
845Â citations
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...So in the early 1980s I introduced both the individual and social models of disability (Oliver 1983) aimed largely at professionals....
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the realignment of the disability/impairment distinction is vital for the identity politics of disability movement and explore the contribution that post-structuralism and phenomenology might make to this end.
Abstract: What is the case for and how would one begin to construct a sociology of impairment? This paper argues that the realignment of the disability/impairment distinction is vital for the identity politics of the disability movement. The body is at the heart of contemporary political and theoretical debate, yet the social model of disability makes it an exile. The transformation of the body from a reactionary to an emancipatory concept implies a sociology of impairment. This paper explores the contribution that post-structuralism and phenomenology might make to this end.
828Â citations
01 Jan 1987
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that a social theory of disability can best be developed through the use of the concept of oppression, and special emphasis is placed on the importance of the social origins of impairment in such an analysis.
Abstract: In this paper it is argued that a social theory of disability can best be developed through the use of the concept of oppression. This concept is outlined, and special emphasis is placed on the importance of the social origins of impairment in such an analysis. The ways in which this approach would utilise data gathered from other theoretical perspectives is indicated. General features of a theory of disability as oppression are specified.
825Â citations