Sociology Looking at Disability

Sara E. Green, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USASharon N. Barnartt, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC, USA

• Foreword - Sara E. GreenIntroduction: An Historical Overview of Sociology Looking at Disability: What Did We Know and When Did We Know It? - Sharon N. BarnarttInvisibility, Visibility, Vilification, and Near Silence: The Framing of Disability in the Early Years of the American Sociological Society - Thomas J. Gerschick and J. Dalton StevensHow Erving Goffman Affected Perceptions of Disability Within Sociology - Sharon N. BarnarttManaging the Emotions of Reading Goffman: Erving Goffman and Spencer Cahill Looking at Disability - Sara E. GreenConceptual Issues in Disability: Saad Nagi’S Contribution to the Disability Knowledge Base - Barbara M. AltmanBack to the Future: Irving K. Zola’S Contributions to the Sociology of Disability - Melissa Jane WelchBringing Our Bodies and Ourselves Back in: Seeing Irving Kenneth Zola’S Legacy - Susan E. BellA Messy Trajectory: from Medical Sociology to Crip Theory - Justine EgnerThe Sociology of Deafness: A Literature Review of the Disciplinary History - Laura Mauldin and Tara FannonRenaming the Wheel: Social Model Constructs in Older Sociological Literature - Rosalyn Benjamin DarlingThe Sibling Disability Experience: An Analysis of Studies Concerning Nonimpaired Siblings of Individuals with Disabilities from 1960 to 1990 - Morgan SanchezStruggles and Joys: A Review of Research on the Social Experience of Parenting Disabled Children - Sara E. Green, Rosalyn Benjamin Darling and Loren Wilbers

This work unites US contributors in sociology, social sciences, and disability studies (most affiliated with the American Sociological Association) to offer sociological perspectives on the conception of disability. The first part of the book surveys pioneering thinkers and works that reveal how the conception of disability was framed in the early years of the American Sociology Society. Several chapters are devoted to the work and ideas of Erving Goffman; other key figures discussed include Spencer Cahill, Saad Nagi, and Irving Kenneth Zola. Later chapters look for insight in theory and research that was not originally centered on the conceptualization of disability. Topics in these chapters include the sociology of deafness, studies on the sibling disability experience, and a review of research on the social experience of parenting disabled children.