TY - BOOK ID - 8563211 TI - Questions of competence : culture, classification and intellectual disability PY - 1998 SN - 0521623030 0521626625 0511621736 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Learning disabled KW - People with mental disabilities KW - Historische en vergelijkende pedagogiek KW - Cross-cultural studies. KW - Historische en vergelijkende pedagogiek. KW - Social Sciences KW - Anthropology KW - LD adults KW - Learning disabled adults KW - Slow-learning adults KW - Intellectually disabled persons KW - Mental disabilities, People with KW - Mentally deficient persons KW - Mentally disabled persons KW - Mentally disordered persons KW - Mentally handicapped KW - Mentally retarded persons KW - People with intellectual disabilities KW - Retarded persons KW - People with disabilities KW - Intellectual disability KW - Mentally ill KW - Handicapés mentaux KW - Déficiences intellectuelles KW - Études transculturelles KW - Etudes transculturelles UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8563211 AB - Intellectual disability - ranging from what is more commonly described as 'mental retardation' to 'learning difficulties' - is a socially constructed phenomenon that varies in important respects cross-culturally. This collection of original essays examines the classification of people as competent and incompetent in the United States, England, Wales, Greece, Greenland, Uganda, and Belize. The contributors, anthropologists and sociologists, argue that it is time for a new understanding of intellectual disability. In contrast to medical and psychological models, a social model of intellectual disability emphasises the cultural and individual variability of incompetence, the intimate relationship between cultural categories of competence and incompetence, and the role of social interaction and networks in its social construction. This book Is an original contribution to ongoing theoretical and policy debates about disability. ER -