Navigating Disability Stigma in Poland''s Changing Cultural Landscape - An Ethnographic and Quantitative Exploration of Social Integration

This book employs a mixed methods research approach to explore disability stigma in Poland, offering rich ethnographic insights as well as introducing a cross-culturally replicable quantitative measurement. It navigates the challenges to social integration for people with disabilities amidst evolving cultural dynamics in the European context.

List of contents

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

About the author

Mirjam Holleman

Product details

• Authors: Mirjam Holleman
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2024
• EAN: 9781666961638
• ISBN: 978-1-66696-163-8
• No. of pages: 182
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social & cultural anthropology, Ethnic groups & multicultural studies, Disability: social aspects, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies