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This new edition brings up to date a classic study of the everyday lives of previously institutionalized people with mental retardation For the first time the author allowed these people to speak about their own lives their fears and their hopes He focused on the role of stigma in their lives and their efforts to pass as normal as well as the need they had for normal benefactorsNow using the same ethnographic methods Robert Edgerton follows up the original population over a period of three decades His new findings greatly expand our knowledge of these individuals suggesting that as they grow older they increase their social competence life satisfaction independence and ability to contribute to the lives of others Human service professionals and others concerned with mental retardation will welcome Edgertons discussion of current issues such as the role of environmental factors in modifying mental retardation and the need for new conceptual approaches
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Mentally retarded individuals have been studied almost exclusively as clinical entities not as persons immersed in the stream of social life This has led not only to a lack of appreciation for the complexity of their lives and concerns but also to an underestimation and incomplete understanding of their intellectual and linguistic skills By exploring aspects of the ongoing linguistic and social lives of retarded individuals in various community contexts this volume contributes to a growing body of literature which attempts to fill in this inadequate picture In addition the studies in this volume offer social scientists insights into the way that stigma such as that associated with intellectual and social incompetence affects social groups and influences conversational behavior and language use
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This new edition brings up to date a classic study of the everyday lives of previously institutionalized people with mental retardation For the first time the author allowed these people to speak about their own lives their fears and their hopes He focused on the role of stigma in their lives and their efforts to pass as normal as well as the need they had for normal benefactorsNow using the same ethnographic methods Robert Edgerton follows up the original population over a period of three decades His new findings greatly expand our knowledge of these individuals suggesting that as they grow older they increase their social competence life satisfaction independence and ability to contribute to the lives of others Human service professionals and others concerned with mental retardation will welcome Edgertons discussion of current issues such as the role of environmental factors in modifying mental retardation and the need for new conceptual approaches
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