Navigating Disability Stigma in Poland's Changing Cultural Landscape

An Ethnographic and Quantitative Exploration of Social Integration in the European Context

Mirjam Holleman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

182 Seiten

2024
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-6163-8 (ISBN)

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Assessing the social integration of people with disabilities in an intra-culturally valid yet cross-culturally replicable and comparative manner is a crucial but challenging tasks for policy makers across the EU. Stigma has been shown to interfere with the successful implementation of public policy and hinder the social integration of people with disabilities. Navigating Disability Stigma in Poland's Changing Cultural Landscape: An Ethnographic and Quantitative Exploration of Social Integration in the European Context employs a mixed method research approach to investigate the stigma toward people with disabilities in Poland. Using a novel approach to existing methods in the field of cognitive anthropology, the author develops a quantitative and potentially cross-culturally replicable assessment of this stigma, offering a vital tool for monitoring social integration. This book navigates the evolving cultural landscape of post state-socialist Poland, where the discourse on disability intersect with shifting societal values and tensions surrounding independence versus state care.

Mirjam Holleman graduated with a PhD in Biocultural Medical Anthropology from the University of Alabama.

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1: EU Goals of Integration for People with Disabilities: Challenges in Monitoring Progress and Measuring Attitudes

Chapter 2: The Management of Disability in the EU and Poland: Who is Disabled and Why Does it Matter?

Chapter 3: Theory Leading to Methods: Linking Cognitive Anthropology, Disability Theory, and Stigma

Chapter 4: Historical Background and Current Social Context: Investigating the Roots of a Polish Cultural Model of Normality and Deviance

Chapter 5: Cultural Models in Transitions: Investigating the Perpetuation and Contestation of Polish Cultural Attitudes toward Disability using Discourse Analysis

Chapter 6: Step by Step Development of a New Stigma Measurement Tool using Mixed Methods

Chapter 7: Quantitative Analysis and Results: Measuring Polish Cultural Models of Normality and Their Effects on Stigma

Chapter 8: Ethnography: Effects of Stigma on the Lived Experiences of People with Disabilities in Poland

Chapter 9: Ethnography: Coping Strategies in their Cultural Context

Conclusion

Appendix A: List of Scenarios on Survey and Variable Labels in SPSS

Appendix B: Polish Translations of Survey Questions

References

About the Author

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.11.2024
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-6669-6163-9 / 1666961639
ISBN-13	978-1-6669-6163-8 / 9781666961638
Zustand	Neuware