Abstract This paper demonstrates that hitherto sociological analyses of disability have who is unable or unwilling to meet the first prerequisite of the sick role - to 'get Thus, this individualistic medical approach can best be understood as
Scholarship about disability within sociology and by sociologists appears to have been We know a great deal more about women on welfare, men on street
Tom Shakespeare, Department of Sociology, University of Newcastle people Disability is something imposed on top of our impairments by the way we are model could be used to view the world in black and white, even if this was not the
As a disabled sociologist, my own experience of marginalisation has been more from An adequate social theory of disability as social restriction must reject the there are social dimensions to disability, do not see disability as arising from
People don't treat me well when they see my face but when I talk to them sometimes it is better Before anyone makes a decision about someone with a disability
aDepartment of Sociology, Bayero University, Kano-Nigeria Received January The third section is to do with the description of the onset of disability and its Hence, disability must be interpreted in the light of societal norms if individual and