Mirjam Holleman

Navigating Disability Stigma in Poland's Changing Cultural Landscape (eBook, ePUB)

An Ethnographic and Quantitative Exploration of Social Integration in the European Context

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Assessing the social integration of people with disabilities in an intra-culturally valid yet cross-culturally replicable and comparative manner is a crucial but challenging tasks for policy makers across the EU. Stigma has been shown to interfere with the successful implementation of public policy and hinder the social integration of people with disabilities. Navigating Disability Stigma in Poland's Changing Cultural Landscape: An Ethnographic and Quantitative Exploration of Social Integration in the European Context employs a mixed method research approach to investigate the stigma toward people with disabilities in Poland. Using a novel approach to existing methods in the field of cognitive anthropology, the author develops a quantitative and potentially cross-culturally replicable assessment of this stigma, offering a vital tool for monitoring social integration. This book navigates the evolving cultural landscape of post state-socialist Poland, where the discourse on disability intersect with shifting societal values and tensions surrounding independence versus state care.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666961645
• Artikelnr.: 74939481

Autorenporträt

Mirjam Holleman graduated with a PhD in Biocultural Medical Anthropology from the University of Alabama.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: EU Goals of Integration for People with Disabilities: Challenges
in Monitoring Progress and Measuring Attitudes
Chapter 2: The Management of Disability in the EU and Poland: Who is
Disabled and Why Does it Matter?
Chapter 3: Theory Leading to Methods: Linking Cognitive Anthropology,
Disability Theory, and Stigma
Chapter 4: Historical Background and Current Social Context: Investigating
the Roots of a Polish Cultural Model of Normality and Deviance
Chapter 5: Cultural Models in Transitions: Investigating the Perpetuation
and Contestation of Polish Cultural Attitudes toward Disability using
Discourse Analysis
Chapter 6: Step by Step Development of a New Stigma Measurement Tool using
Mixed Methods
Chapter 7: Quantitative Analysis and Results: Measuring Polish Cultural
Models of Normality and Their Effects on Stigma
Chapter 8: Ethnography: Effects of Stigma on the Lived Experiences of
People with Disabilities in Poland
Chapter 9: Ethnography: Coping Strategies in their Cultural Context
Conclusion
Appendix A: List of Scenarios on Survey and Variable Labels in SPSS
Appendix B: Polish Translations of Survey Questions
References
About the Author