How is disability understood? An examination of sociological approaches

摘要: This paper considers sociological understandings of what constitutes disability. Current meanings disability in both studies and medical sociology are examined compared, using selected articles from leading authors each discipline as case studies. These disciplines often represented offering starkly contrasting approaches to disability, with their differences amounting a disciplinary 'divide'. It is argued that, on closer inspection, common ground can be found between some writers sociology. suggested that this situation has arisen because, studies, the social relational understanding developed by Vic Finkelstein Paul Hunt 1970s been lost over time, overshadowed rise prominence its offspring: model The concludes reflections need revive