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Edited by Richard Jenkins, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 250 pages (hbk), ISBN 0521 62303 0, 1998. This book makes compelling and interesting reading. The chapters include considerations not only of those who we might term as people with learning disabilities within our own culture, but also disabled people, those with mental illness and mental health problems, and those who are grappling with the personal effects of harsh lives and living conditions. The reason for this is that the ways in which (in)competence is socially constructed and acted upon within different cultures simply do not match the largely western objective model of individual deficit. Cultural variation in the social construction of incompetence is addressed in eight empirical chapters, each of which stands on its own, providing a wealth of data and insights into the lives of people with learning disabilities and others. However, there are disparities between chapters in terms of their methodological rigour. For example, prior to using four descriptions of people with learning disabilities as ‘illustrative material’ (p. 30), Angrosino directs us to interpret these using a three‐component model of ‘personal identity’, arguing that discrepancies between those attributed by the public, self‐identity and ‘optative status’ (identities one
Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities – Wiley
Published: Mar 1, 2001
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