Exploring how the social model of disability can be re-invigorated: in response to Mike Oliver

Author:
LEVITT Jonathan M.
Journal article citation:
Disability and Society, 32(4), 2017, pp.589-594.
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis

In his 2013 article in Disability & Society, Oliver recommended that the social model should either be replaced or re-invigorated. In this article, the author argues that the social model’s current emphasis reflects the social conditions in which it was introduced, and that the model’s impact on disabled people’s lives would increase if its emphasis was to more accurately reflect the current social conditions in the geographical regions in which it is applied. In order to help foster its re-invigoration, the author ask five questions for discussion on the way forward for the social model. The questions were identified through examining published writing on the scope of the social model and on the model’s relationship with other models of disability. (Edited publisher abstract)

Subject terms:
social model, disabilities;
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ISSN online:
1360-0508
ISSN print:
0968-7599

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