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It takes two to tango: the integration of people with disabilities into society
- Authors:
- VAN DE VEL Leontine, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 20(3), May 2005, pp.311-329.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The concept of integration is not well defined. It not known how people with disabilities experience integration. In this study qualitative methods were used. The aim of the article is to define a model of successful integration based on the perspectives of people with disabilities and people within their social environment. Integration consists of five elements: functioning ordinarily without receiving special attention, mixing with others that are not disabled, taking part in society, trying to realize one’s potential and directing one’s own life. Integration is obtained through a process of interaction between a person with a disability and society. This process is influenced by personal, societal and support factors. The individual with a disability and society have a mutual responsibility with respect to integration.
Equality, identity and disability rights movement: from policy to practice and from Kant to Nietzsche in more than one uneasy move
- Author:
- SMITH R. Steven
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 25(4), November 2005, pp.554-576.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Consistent with Social Work Codes of Ethics and mainstream social policy objectives, the Disability Rights Movement (DRM) promotes the universal values of equal rights and individual autonomy, drawing heavily from Kantian philosophy. However, an anti-universalized Nietzschean perspective is also promoted via the ‘social model’ of disability, challenging the political orthodoxy of rights-based social movements, and the aspirations of social workers to ‘empower’ disabled people. The author argues that these Kantian and Nietzschean strands within the DRM, whilst incommensurable, permit a radical assertion of disability-identity. That is, without conceding to value-relativism and postmodern particularlism, and allowing a ‘celebration of difference’ through establishing reciprocal social relations.