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Disability and dependency: a challenge for the Social Services
- Author:
- WALKER Alan
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 1(1), 1983, pp.1-7.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
The paper was presented originally to the SSRG Workshop on 'The Challenge of Dependency" in April 1981, the International Year of Disabled People. It was addressed partly to the issue of opportunities for action during the IYPD and therefore has been revised to take account of some subsequent changes in policy. It is argued that the deprivation and marginality of disabled people rests on social processes, rather than physical and mental disabilities. One important way in which this is legitimated is through the social construction of people with disabilities as a dependent minority. Research, it is argued, has tended to take this popular image for granted, and has concentrated on describing and measuring certain forms of dependency.