The employment landscape is evolving rapidly, driven by technological innovations, shifting employer practices, and new government policies that redefine where and how work is performed. However, these transformations have not been universally ben...Lasīt vairāk
The employment landscape is evolving rapidly, driven by technological innovations, shifting employer practices, and new government policies that redefine where and how work is performed. However, these transformations have not been universally ben...Lasīt vairāk
Showcasing conceptually innovative work and cutting-edge methods related to the study of families, this volume presents not just a groundbreaking perspective on disability and family life, but also a new paradigm in disability scholarship....Lasīt vairāk
Featuring a framework rarely applied in the field of disability studies, this book explores not only a range of disabilities and impairments but also a diverse array of life course experiences, deepening knowledge across both fields for the widest...Lasīt vairāk
Disability in the Time of Pandemic is a timely exploration of emerging research into the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for people with disabilities in their varied communities and across their complex identities. CO...Lasīt vairāk
Consisting of 10 chapters contributed by sociology, psychology, and other researchers from North America and Europe, this volume discusses aspects related to alliances within and beyond disability communities. They address the structures and syst...Lasīt vairāk
This volume seeks to answer the call for richer, more diverse understandings of disability through questions about narrative frameworks in disability research.Narrative is a omnipresent meaning-producing communication form in social life that is both...Lasīt vairāk
This collection examines less frequently anaylzed aspects of employment for persons with disabilities, offering a variety of approaches to the conceptualization of work, and how it differs across cultures, organizations, and types of disability....Lasīt vairāk
Current research in Sociology of Disability has a tendency to assume that very little written in this area until the last 20 years. However, this is not always the case. In part the lack of awareness of older writing occurs because of the ease of com...Lasīt vairāk
Physical structure, economic expectation or social relationship norms developed within various cultures can either restrict or support the participation of individuals with disabilities in society. The influence of environmental factors can vary sign...Lasīt vairāk
Disability can be either an ascribed status or an achieved status and its combination with other statuses will affect the persons social experiences. The term intersectionality has been used most often to discuss the ways in which the dual and simult...Lasīt vairāk
Sociologists and others involved with understanding the activities of people with disabilities in the context of communities offer 11 contributions. Discussion includes spatial design, architecture, and cultural policy in university communities; fami...Lasīt vairāk
Disability is often described in a way that suggests that it is a permanent and relatively stable state. Many concepts and models of disability suggest this. Even when it is described as being socially constructed, the implication is that an impairme...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Research in Social Science and Disability
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Apr-2006, Hardback, Izdevniecība: JAI Press Inc., ISBN-13: 9780762312825)
Disability policy has become an increasingly important issue in countries around the world. More and more, as populations are exposed to war and civil conflicts, natural disasters, environmental poisons along with the effects of normal aging, accid...Lasīt vairāk
Barbara Altman, Sharon N. Barnartt, Gerry E. Hendershot, Sheryl Larson
Sērija : Research in Social Science and Disability
(Izdošanas datums: 04-Nov-2003, Hardback, Izdevniecība: JAI Press Inc., ISBN-13: 9780762310074)
The 1994-95 Disability Supplement to the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS-D) sponsored by the US Department of Health and Human Services provided a rich resource for the quantitative studies included in this volume. Nationally-epresentative sur...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Research in Social Science and Disability
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Jun-2001, Hardback, Izdevniecība: JAI Press Inc., ISBN-13: 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 th...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Research in Social Science and Disability
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Dec-2000, Hardback, Izdevniecība: JAI Press Inc., ISBN-13: 9780762305513)
The first volume presents a collection of exciting papers exploring several new areas of disability research. The contributions include: examination of the media representation of disability and coverage of disability policy issues which gives an und...Lasīt vairāk
