Disability and culture
This collection of essays both reframes disability in terms of social processes and offers a global, multicultural perspective on the subject. It explores the significance of mental, sensory and motor impairments in light of fundamental, culturally determined assumptions about h…
Monograph on a survey of White elites in South Africa R - covers educational level, occupational status, social status, attitudes towards racial segregation, the extent of political participation, the relationship with other social classes, etc. Bibliography pp. 179 to 185 and s…
Examines the self-organization of disabled people in the UK during the past 30 years. Explores the development of the disability movement and the formation of the British Council of Disabled People. Looks at the impact of the movement on disability consciousness and discusses is…
Diffusion Processes and Fertility Transition: Selected Perspectives
by National Research Council (U.S.)., Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council (U.S.)., Committee on Population, National Research Council, Committee on Population Staff, National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education Staff, Casterline, John
An OU set text, this volume is concerned with the social construction of social difference. Taking the body as the point of departure, it deals with the processes through which social problems and social inequalities are constructed.
First published in 1950.
