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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.

Learning disabled --- People with mental disabilities --- Historische en vergelijkende pedagogiek --- Cross-cultural studies. --- Historische en vergelijkende pedagogiek. --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- LD adults --- Learning disabled adults --- Slow-learning adults --- Intellectually disabled persons --- Mental disabilities, People with --- Mentally deficient persons --- Mentally disabled persons --- Mentally disordered persons --- Mentally handicapped --- Mentally retarded persons --- People with intellectual disabilities --- Retarded persons --- People with disabilities --- Intellectual disability --- Mentally ill --- Handicapés mentaux --- Déficiences intellectuelles --- Études transculturelles --- Etudes transculturelles

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This third edition builds on the international success of previous editions, offering an easy access and critical introduction to social science theories of identity, for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates. All of the previous chapters have been updated and extra material has been added where relevant, for example, on globalisation. Two new chapters have been added; one addresses the debate about whether identity matters, discussing, for example, Brubaker; the second reviews the postmodern approach to identity. The text is informed by relevant topical examples throughout and, as with earlier editions, the emphasis is on sociology, anthropology and social psychology; on the interplay between relationships of similarity and difference; on interaction; on the categorization of others as well as self-identification; and on power, institutions and organizations.

Group identity. --- Identité collective --- Identité collective

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Blacks --- Discrimination in employment --- Employees --- Race discrimination --- #SBIB:316.334.2A342 --- #SBIB:39A6 --- Negroes --- Ethnology --- Employment --- Recruiting --- Arbeidssociologie: ongelijkheden op de arbeidsmarkt: migranten op de arbeidsmarkt --- Etniciteit / Migratiebeleid en -problemen --- Sociology of minorities --- Labour market --- Great Britain --- Black persons

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"Social Identity explains how identification, seen as a social process, works: individually, interactionally and institutionally. Building on the international success of previous editions, this fourth edition offers a concise, comprehensive and readable critical introduction to social science theories of identity for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates. All the chapters have been updated, and extra new material has been added where relevant, integrating the most recent critical publications in the field. As with the earlier editions, the emphasis is on sociology, anthropology and social psychology; on the interplay between relationships of similarity and difference; on interaction; on the categorisation of others as well as self-identification; and on power, institutions and organisations. Written in clear, accessible language, and informed by relevant topical examples throughout, this fully updated new edition will be useful for students interested in social identity throughout the social sciences and humanities"--

Group identity --- 316.37 --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- 316.37 Identiteit. Individu en maatschappij. Persoonlijkheid --- Identiteit. Individu en maatschappij. Persoonlijkheid --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Sociology of culture --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Community organization --- Group identity.

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Social Identity provides a clearly-written accessible introduction to sociological and social anthropological approaches to identity. Looking at the work of Mead, Goffman and Barth, this book makes clear their relevance to everyday life. Insisting that reflexive self identity is not a modern phenomenon, the core argument is that individual and collective identity can both be understood using the same model, as 'internal' and 'external' processes. Social Identity brings together sociological and social anthropological theories of identity, and makes an original contribution to social theory. Focusing on identity as individual and collective, this book brings us a fresh perspective on the relationship between the individual and society. This book provides an essential guide to the concept of social identity, offering students critical discussions of Schutz, Berger and Luckman, Becker, Anthony Cohen, Giddens, Bourdieu and many others.

Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Social psychology --- Sociology of culture --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Community organization --- Group identity. --- Group identity --- Identité collective