Towards a Sociological Critique of the Normalisation Principle

Chappell, Anne

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“…Fourthly, adults often lack material resources which facilitate social contacts, e.g. money, access to private transport and personally owned living space (Chappell, 1992). Fifthly, some adults have problems communicating verbally, although these problems may result as much from lack of practice due to social isolation as from cognitive defects.…”

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“…We might expect social support to have a quite different significance, for example, amid sectarian strife in Bosnia, in the impoverished, crimeridden inner city areas of Great Britain, among the wealthy of the City of London, or for people with disabilities. Wider structural conditions for adults with learning difficulties include segregation, stigmatisation and lack of control over material resources (Chappell, 1992). Their networks cannot be understood without taking these conditions into account.…”

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Alone in the crowd: How adults with learning difficulties cope with social networks problems

Heyman

Swain

Gillman

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Social Science & Medicine

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The relationship between perceived social support and mental health has been the subject of a large quantitative research effort. However, quantification leads to inevitable oversimplification of multi-dimensional, intersubjective and contextual features of social support. The present paper explores qualitatively the social networks of six adults with learning difficulties (adults), selected from a sample of 32 because of the strategies which they used to manage their social worlds. Three adults, who lived with parents, attempted to sustain nonconfirmed identities in the face of rejection by others. The other three adults, who were separated from their families, had adopted fatalistic attitudes, despite feeling socially isolated and unsupported. The paper argues that non-confirmed identity maintenance and fatalism are both responses to social contexts which do not support an individual's sense of self worth. The former is an attempt to manufacture positive identity in the absence of consensual alternatives. The latter involves acceptance of a social world which does not sustain valued social identities. The paper explores in detail the social contexts in which adults attempted to maintain non-confirmed identities or adopted fatalistic attitudes. The research provides a perspective on the management of behaviour defined from a frame of reference external to the individual as 'challenging' or 'problematic'. Carers saw adults who sustained non-confirmed identities as having behaviour problems. However, these problems arose from adults' attempts to maintain self-esteem in stigmatising social contexts. The fatalistic adults did not cause behaviour 'problems' for carers, but only because they had accepted lives which did not give them any sources of positive self-esteem.

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Alone in the crowd: How adults with learning difficulties cope with social networks problems

Heyman

Swain

Gillman

et al. 1997

Social Science & Medicine

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“…Some, for instance, might take exception to its implicit support for 'normalisation' , a concept concerned with how disabled people can 'slot' into 'everyday living' and lead an 'ordinary life' (King's Fund Centre 1980. Popular in the 1980s, this concept has since been criticised for overlooking the social construction, and socially constructed meanings, of 'disability' and 'normality' (Chappell 1992); indeed, by not focusing on deconstructing the meanings attached to disability, writers from critical disability studies may argue that it misses that which should ground our approach to disability (Corker 1999;Vehmas and Watson 2014). It has also been accused of ignoring the material constraints that impact the lives of disabled people, problematizing rather than valuing difference, and requiring individuals to 'fit in' to an unchanged society rather than requiring a changed society to be 'fit for' the individual (Chappell 1992;Myers et al 1998;Pothier and devlin 2006;Vehmas and Watson 2014;Ward 1992).…”

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Physical environments and community reintegration post stroke: qualitative insights from stroke clubs

Brookfield

Mead

2016

Disability & Society

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This study investigated the environment's role in community reintegration amongst persons with experience of stroke. Focus group discussions with 29 individuals recruited from community stroke clubs in Scotland revealed that stroke influenced a person's perceptions, experience, use and enjoyment of the environment. Multiple specific (e.g. theatres, cafes) and more general (out-of-thehome) environments appeared capable of supporting community reintegration, providing settings in which individuals were able and willing to interact with others and participate in various functional, social and recreational activities. The article reflects on the study's implications for policy and practice.

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“…Critical constructivist definitions o f disability emerged in the 1980s in the work o f researchers and theorists, primarily in Britain and Europe (Chappell, 1992;Ward & Flynn, 1994;Shakespeare, 1993). One idea proposed in these theories is that disability is a construction o f material conditions in society.…”

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“…One idea proposed in these theories is that disability is a construction o f material conditions in society. "Disability comes not from bodily impairment, but from the social and economic restrictions imposed on the individual which disable him/her" (Chappell, 1992).…”

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Telling a different story: Implications of contructivism for the counselling of parents of children labelled with disabilities.

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Towards a Sociological Critique of the Normalisation Principle

Cited by 74 publications

References 6 publications

Alone in the crowd: How adults with learning difficulties cope with social networks problems

Alone in the crowd: How adults with learning difficulties cope with social networks problems

Physical environments and community reintegration post stroke: qualitative insights from stroke clubs

Telling a different story: Implications of contructivism for the counselling of parents of children labelled with disabilities.

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