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Hardback
960 pp.
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ISBN-13:
9780190093167

Publication date:
August 2023

Imprint: OUP US

The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Disability

Edited by Robyn Lewis Brown, Michelle Maroto and David Pettinicchio

Series : Oxford Handbooks

The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Disability provides a timely and comprehensive overview of the wide range and depth of sociological theory and research on disability-brought together for the first time in one volume. Each section of the Handbook incorporates a uniquely sociological perspective, presented by a wide-range of experts on intersecting social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions of disability, that complements disability scholarship. The 37 chapters in this Handbook, organized into three major sections, provide an assessment of the history of the field, its current state, and the future for research on and in the sociology of disability.

The first section reviews frameworks foundational to the study of disability, pushes for the inclusion of broader global perspectives, and addresses important dimensions of representation. The second section presents a combination of perspectives that tie together individual biography, societal contexts, and historic change, while emphasizing continuity and change in the dynamic processes linking individuals, institutions, and structures over time. In the third section, contributors investigate the reproduction of inequality through law, policy, and related institutions and systems, while highlighting how social and political participation empowers people with disabilities and helps to mitigate inequalities and social marginalization. The chapters included in this volume offer a multifaceted resource for students and experienced scientists alike on historical developments, main standards, key issues, and current challenges in the sociological study of disability at the global, national, and regional levels.

Readership : Scholars, researchers, and students of sociology of disability, disability studies, and related fields.

Introduction

1. Introduction: A New Direction in the Sociology of Disability
Robyn Lewis Brown, Michelle Maroto, and David Pettinicchio

Section I: Defining, Measuring, and Understanding Disability

Part I. Understanding, Theorizing, and Studying Disability

2. Frameworks, Models, Theories, and Experiences for Understanding Disability
Tom Shakespeare and Nicholas Watson
3. Sociological Perspectives on Disability
Laura Mauldin
4. Feminist Perspectives on Disability, Impairment, and Ableness
Vera Chouinard
5. The Able Body and the Pursuit of Power
Bill Hughes
6. Contextualizing Disability Experiences: Understanding and Measuring How the Environment Influences Disability
Kenzie Latham-Mintus and Sabrina Cordon
7. How to Get What You Want to Know and Know What You've Gotten in Research: Measuring Disability Past, Present and Future
Sharon N. Barnartt and Barbara M. Altman

Part II. Global Perspectives

7. Critical Thinking on Disability and Development in the Global South
Shaun Grech
8. Disability, Gender, and Health Care in the Global South
Aizan Sofia Amin
9. Disability and Human Rights
Paula Campos Pinto

Part III. Representations of Disability in Culture and Media

10. Inequality and Day-to-Day Encounters with Media
Kate Prendella and Meryl Alper
12. Framing Disability in Fashion
Jordan Foster
13. Intellectual Disability and the Dimensions of Belonging
Allison C. Carey

Section II: Experiencing Disability across the Life Course

Part IV. Disability and the Life Course

14. Disability and Family Care Work Over the Life Course
J. Dalton Stevens
15. Women's Reproductive Trajectories after Spinal Cord Injury: A Life Course Perspective on Acquired Disabilities
Heather Dillaway, Alymamah Mashrah, Brianna Marzolf, Heather Fritz, Wassim Tarraf, and Cathy Lysack
16. Disability and the Transition to Adulthood in the United States
Anthony R. Bardo and Ashley Vowels

Part V. Education

17. Disability in the Transition from K-12 to Higher Education
Dara Shifrer
18. Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Outcomes
Fabricio E. Balcazar and Norma Ramirez
19. Disability, Education, and Work in a Global Knowledge Economy
Sally Tomlinson and Stacy Hewitt

Part VI. Work and Economic Wellbeing

20. Relational Inequality and the Structures that Disadvantage
Michelle Maroto and David Pettinicchio
21. Disability and Precarious Work
Lisa Schur and Douglas L. Kruse
22. Service-Connected Disability and Poverty Among US Veterans
Andrew S. London, Scott D. Landes, and Janet M. Wilmoth
23. Cumulative Disadvantage in Employment: Disability over the Life Course and Wealth Inequality in Later Life
Kim Shuey and Andrea Willson

Part VII. Stigma, Discrimination, and Systems of Inequality

24. Evolving Perspectives on Disability, Stigma, and Discrimination
Robyn Lewis Brown and Evan Batty
25. Disclosure, Discrimination, and Identity Among Working Professionals with Bipolar Disorder or Major Depression
Marta Elliott and Jordan C. Reuter
26. A Critical Review of Approaches to Erasing the Stigma of Mental Illness
Lindsay Sheehan and Patrick W. Corrigan

Part VIII. Intersectionality and Inequalities

27. An Intersectional Analysis of Labor Market Outcomes
Jennifer D. Brooks
28. Indigenous Perspectives on Disability
Minerva Rivas Velarde
29. Being LGBTQ+ and Disabled, a Socially Contradicting Experience
Justine E. Egner

Section III: Disability, Politics, and the Law

Part IX: Social Policies and Legal Rights

30. An International Perspective on Disability Social Policy
Susanne M. Bruyère and Matthew Saleh
31. Disability Prevalence, Measurement, and Health in a Global Context
Bryan L. Sykes and Justin D. Strong
32. Disability Rights and Citizenship
Brian Gran and Anne Bryden

Part X: Crime and the Criminal Justice System

33. Social Control, Punishment, and Disability in the United States
April D. Fernandes and Victoria Kurdyla
34. Disability, Violence, and Prison
Nomi Ostrander
35. Barriers to Access in the Norwegian Criminal Justice System
Patrick Kermit and Terje Olsen

Part XI: Efforts toward Inclusion

36. Activism, Inclusion, and Social Justice
Michael Prince
37. Disability and Social Participation
Carrie Shandra
38. The Disability Rights Movement
Richard Scotch and Kara Sutton

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Robyn Lewis Brown is a quantitative sociologist who specializes in the study of stigma and discrimination among women and people with disabilities. She has also written extensively about differential responses to collective trauma or macro-level stressors including those associated with the Great Recession, the 9/11 attacks and, more recently, the COVID-19 pandemic. She has published more than 50 articles and chapters on these topics and is currently supported by a Switzer Fellowship from NIDILRR. She is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Kentucky, where she also serves as director of the Health, Society, and Populations Program. She is also deputy editor of Society and Mental Health and Sociological Perspectives and serves on the editorial board of several other academic journals including the Journal of Aging and Health, Stigma and Health, and Health Sociology Review. Her work has been featured in international and US-centric media outlets.

Michelle Maroto is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Alberta. Her research interests include social stratification, gender and family, race and ethnicity, labor and credit markets, and disability studies. Her recent projects address the many dimensions of wealth inequality, the complicated dynamics behind social class in Canada, and economic outcomes for people with different types of disabilities during the pandemic.

David Pettinicchio is associate professor of sociology and affiliated faculty in the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. His research lies at the intersection of politics and inequality, with a focus on disability as global axis of exclusion and marginalization. He published his book, Politics of Empowerment with Stanford University Press and recently edited Volume 28 of Research in Political Sociology (Emerald). He has published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, and his work has also been featured in popular publications including The Washington Post, USA Today, HuffPost, The Globe and Mail, and the Toronto Star.

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Special Features

Global perspectives of the contributors to the volume provide richer and more comprehensive analyses that extend beyond the Anglo and Western world
Methodological diversity means that the Handbook will appeal equally to those scholars working in statistics as it does to scholars more involved with interviewing, content analyses, and ethnographies
Core themes of the Handbook are sure to resonate with a wide audience in and out of academia