This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection, examines disability from a theoretical perspective, challenging views of disability that dominate mainstream thinking. Throughout, social theories of disability intersect with ideas associated with sex/gender, race/ethnicity, cla…
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This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection examines disability from a theoretical perspective. Each chapter challenges dominant biological, individualistic and psychological views of disability, drawing on one or two theories (and theorists) to advance a sustained analysis…
"This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection examines disability from a theoretical perspective. Each chapter challenges dominant biological, individualistic and psychological views of disability, drawing on one or two theories (and theorists) to advance a sustained analysi…
Considers aspects of male-female relationships in America today to determine the motivations behind male behavior.
A conceptual model of prejudice - the layered perspective of cultural intolerance - is used to analyse in depth the communication of prejudice in a variety of spheres such as racism, sexism, homophobia, ageism and classism.
Communicating prejudice
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Communicating prejudice
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"Prejudice pervades our society in many guises, from pejorative remarks to acts of violence. Communicating Prejudice explores the many dimensions of prejudice. It presents a new and integrative conceptual model of prejudice, the layered perspective of cultural intolerance, and u…
A new integrative conceptual model of prejudice - the layered perspective of cultural intolerance - is presented in the volume. This model is used to analyze the communication of prejudice in a variety of guises such as racism, sexism, homophobia, ageism and classism. Drawing on…
The post-civil rights era perspective of many scientists and scholars was that race was nothing more than a social construction. Recently, however, the relevance of race as a social, legal, and medical category has been reinvigorated by science, especially by discoveries in gene…
This work explores how race as a category - reinforced by new discoveries in genetics - is used as a basis for practice and policy in law, science, and medicine.
How race as a category-reinforced by new discoveries in genetics-is used as a basis for practice and policy in law, science, and medicine.