Social Research and Disability

Social Research and Disability
Author: Ciaran Burke
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2020-12-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429760027

Social Research and Disability argues that the contemporary rules of sociological methods outlined in numerous research methods texts make a number of assumptions concerning the researcher including ambulance, sight, hearing and speech. In short, the disabled researcher is not considered when outlining the requirements of particular methods. Drawing upon these considerations, the volume emphasizes how disabled researchers negotiate the empirical process, in light of disability, whilst retaining the scientific rigour of the method. It also considers the negative consequences arising from disabled researchers’ attempts at "passing" and the benefits that can emerge from a reflexive approach to method. This innovative and original text will, for the first time, bring together research-active academics, who identify as being disabled, to consider experiences of being disabled within a largely ableist academy, as well as strategies employed and issues faced when conducting empirical research. The driving force of this volume is to provide the blueprints for bringing how we conduct social research to the same standards and vision as how the social world is understood: multi-faceted and intersectional. To this end, this edited collection advocates for a sociological future that values the presence of disabled researchers and normalises research methods that are inclusive and accessible. The interdisciplinary focus of Social Research and Disability offers a uniquely broad primary market. This volume will be of interest not only to the student market, but also to established academics within the social sciences.

Disability as a Fluid State

Disability as a Fluid State
Author: Sharon N. Barnartt
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2010-11-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0857243780

Disability is often described in a way that suggests it is a permanent, relatively stable state. This volume argues that the relationship between impairment (physical state) and disability is neither fixed nor permanent but is fluid and not easily predicted.

Doing Accessible Social Research

Doing Accessible Social Research
Author: Aidley, Daniela
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2021-07-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1447351096

In this book, Daniela Aidley and Kriss Fearon provide a practical introduction to making it easier for everyone to take part in research. It will be invaluable to researchers from a variety of backgrounds looking to increase participation in their research, whether postgraduate students, experienced academic researchers, or practitioners.

Disability Research Today

Disability Research Today
Author: Tom Shakespeare
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2015-03-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317750942

Grouped around four central themes – illness and impairment, disabling processes, care and control, and communication and representations – this collection offers a fresh perspective on disability research, showing how theory and data can be brought together in new and exciting ways. Disability Research Today starts by showing how engaging with issues around illness and impairment is vital to a multidisciplinary understanding of disability as a social process. The second section explores factors that affect disabled people, such as homelessness, violence and unemployment. The third section turns to social care, and how disabled people are prevented from living with independence and dignity. Finally, the last section examines how different imagery and technology impacts our understandings of disability and deafness. Showcasing empirical work from a range of countries, including Japan, Norway, Italy, Australia, India, the UK, Turkey, Finland and Iceland, this collection shows how disability studies can be simultaneously sophisticated, accessible and policy-relevant. Disability Research Today is suitable for students and researchers in disability studies, sociology, social policy, social work, nursing and health studies.

Sociology Looking at Disability

Sociology Looking at Disability
Author: Sara E. Green
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2016-12-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1786354772

The purpose of this volume is to explore existing literature, with an eye towards encouraging scholars not to ask “the same old” questions but to use older writings as a basis for revolutionary and evolutionary thinking. What do the older writings tell us about what questions we should be asking, and what research we should be doing, today?

Disability Reader

Disability Reader
Author: Tom Shakespeare
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 321
Release: 1998-09-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0826453600

A collection of essays exploring the intellectual implications of a disability equality perspective. Leading social scientists draw on current theory and research and offer an overview of contemporary debates.

Disability

Disability
Author: Joav Merrick
Publisher:
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2021
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781685074265

"Wherever we live or whatever we do, disability will always be part of us, whether we want to know it or not. With increasing age, we will all surely encounter disability. It can be age or it can be outside forces that will result in disability, like for example a traffic accident. It is estimated that more than a billion people or about 15% of the population in the world live with some form of disability. Disability research is therefore important not only for the individual or the family, but certainly also for the society that has to adapt and facilitate an easier life and better service for this segment of our population. For example, research from the United States found significant disparities in the prevalence of disability between urban and rural residents with rural residents having the highest prevalence of disability. Such epidemiology and survey research can be important tools for public health focus and intervention and can guide policy makers to allocate budgets and service facilities and expertise. In this book we have gathered some recent disability research from various places around the world that we hope will be of interest to the reader"--

Doing Accessible Social Research

Doing Accessible Social Research
Author: Aidley, Daniela
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2021-07-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1447351126

Nearly 20% of the population has a disability. Despite this, mainstream research often does not explicitly address the methodological and practical issues that can act as barriers to disabled people’s participation in social research. In this book, Aidley and Fearon provide a concise, practical introduction to making it easier for everyone to take part in research. Requiring no prior knowledge about accessible research methods, the book: • explains how removing barriers to participation will improve the quality of the research; • covers the research process from design, to collecting data, to dissemination and publication; • includes checklists and further reading, as well as useful examples and vignettes to illustrate how issues play out in practice. This book will be invaluable to researchers from a variety of backgrounds looking to increase participation in their research, whether postgraduate students, experienced academic researchers, practitioners or professionals.

Disability Hate Speech

Disability Hate Speech
Author: Mark Sherry
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2019-11-08
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0429513917

This book, the first to specifically focus on disability hate speech, explains what disability hate speech is, why it is important, what laws regulate it (both online and in person) and how it is different from other forms of hate. Unfortunately, disability is often ignored or overlooked in academic, legal, political, and cultural analyses of the broader problem of hate speech. Its unique personal, ideological, economic, political and legal dimensions have not been recognized – until now. Disability hate speech is an everyday experience for many people, leaving terrible psycho-emotional scars. This book includes personal testimonies from victims discussing the personal impact of disability hate speech, explaining in detail how such hatred affects them. It also presents legal, historical, psychological, and cultural analyses, including the results of the first surveys and in-depth interviews ever conducted on this topic in some countries. This book makes a vital contribution to understanding disability hatred and prejudice, and will be of particular interest to those studying issues associated with hate speech, disability, psychology, law, and prejudice.

Exploring Theories and Expanding Methodologies

Exploring Theories and Expanding Methodologies
Author: Sharon N. Barnartt
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2001
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780762307739

Focuses attention on the dual themes of theory and methodology that must form a basis for studies of impairment and disability. This work addresses issues that include: critiques of current concepts of disability; the fit between sociological role theory and the concept of disability; and, the operationalization of many definitions of disability.