Robert Bogdan

Syracuse University | SU · Center on Human Policy

Handicapism Update (2013): We wrote “ Handicapism” more than 35 years ago. We were young scholars who were also activists for societal change for people who were labeled “disabled.” That article and others we wrote with a similar theme were meant to clearly and forcefully contribute to reframing the discussion of disability from questions like “wha...

Bogdan and his collaborators have studied thousands of historical photographs of people with disabilities in writing this book. Their work shows how people with disabilities have been presented but in a much wider range than we have ever seen before.

From fairy tales to photography, nowhere is the complexity of human-animal relationships more apparent than in the creative arts. Art illuminates the nature and significance of animals in modern, Western thought, capturing the complicated union that has long existed between the animal kingdom and us. In Beauty and the Beast, authors Arluke and Bogd...

Until recently, participant observation and other forms of fieldwork were taught through apprentice relationships. Increasingly, formal courses are being taught to initiate novices into the field. This paper outlines one approach to teaching and invites the kind of dialogue and debate concerning research methods teaching that appears in the invited...

This volume is a completely up-to-date guide to qualitative study design, data collection, analysis, and reporting. The first part of the book surveys a range of methods for collecting qualitative data, focusing on how these techniques are applied when conducting an actual study. The second half of the book, which covers the writing and publication...

The authors describe and analyze pictorial representations and written messages from a collection of over 1,600 early 20th century postcard depicting institutions for people with mental disorders. They discuss asylum views within the context of postcards as a commercial enterprise and their meaning to the sender and receiver.

Software Specification, volume 86 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 292--332, New York, NY, 1980. Springer-Verlag. [4] R. A. DeMillo, R. J. Lipton, and A. J. Perlis. Social processes and proofs of theorems and programs. Communications of the ACM, 22(5):271--280, 1979. [5] Stephen H. Edwards. An approach for constructing reusable software...

For all of their adult years the Ward brothers have been subsistence dairy farmers in a small rural community in central New York. In the spring of 1990 one of them was found dead and his brother, Delbert, was charged with murder and subsequently tried. A psychologist who testified for the defense put Delbert through a range of standard diagnostic...

Report for the public, researchers and professional community on leading organizations of the period which were supporting people with "severe disabilities" to move to and remain in the community. Based on a national research study, also reported as Racino, 1991 in the Journal of Mental Health Administration. K. Charlie Lakin, then director of the...

From 1840 until 1940, freak shows by the hundreds crisscrossed the United States, from the smallest towns to the largest cities, exhibiting their casts of dwarfs, giants, Siamese twins, bearded ladies, savages, snake charmers, fire eaters, and other oddities. By today's standards such displays would be considered cruel and exploitative—the pornog...

This paper presents the perspective of nondisabled people who do not stigmatize, stereotype, and reject those with obvious disabilities. We look at how nondisabled people who are in caring and accepting relationships with severely disabled others define them. Although the disabled people in these relationships sometimes drool, soil themselves, and...

This article outlines the “sociology of acceptance” as a theoretical framework for understanding relationships between people with mental retardation and typical people. As a point of departure, the authors review sociocultural perspectives on deviance and explore their contribution to the study of mental retardation. Based on qualitative research...

The report describes the Georgia Citizen Advocacy program which links developmentally disabled persons with persons in the community who will look out for their interests. The program is commended for its emphasis on development of "advocate/protege" relationships which are often just the starting point for involving the disabled individual in a ne...

This article discusses the history of the sociology of deviance and the exclusion from society of individuals who do not meet norms, and argues for a sociology emphasizing acceptance of differences on individual, group, and societal levels. Types of relationships based on mutual acceptance are discussed along with generalizations regarding the deve...

Historians in the field of mental retardation have neglected to document the exhibition of people for amusement and profit, commonly known as "freak shows." The exhibition of people we would now call "mentally retarded" during the period 1850 to 1940 in the United States was discussed. Biographical sketches were given to five famous persons who wer...

If one undertakes naturalistic evaluation without formal training, there are some important considerations and sources of information to keep in mind.

Discusses a study of the efficacy of mainstreaming. The goal of the study was to see what actually went on in schools, how people thought about mainstreaming, what they did about it, and how teachers, administrators, and students experienced it. (JOW)

Joe Campbell has worked for several years with disabled youngsters. A teaching assistant who was born with cerebral palsy, he views main streaming from his wheelchair. The au thors of this article have compiled and edited their taped conversations with him.

From the early nineteenth century to the present, horror, gangster, and adventure films, television, the comics, and newspapers have shown physical and mental disabilities to connote murder, violence, and danger. Such false portrayals have promoted negative public attitudes toward people with disabilities. (Author/MJL)

Based on participant observation and other qualitative data collected at 15 institutions for the mentally retarded, this study is directed to determining how institutional officials deal with outside criticism of their facilities. Over the past decade and a half, the legitimacy of institutions for the retarded has been challenged by professionals,...

The meaning of the label "mentally retarded" is discussed with two adults who have been labeled mentally retarded and have spent a significant portion of their lives in residential facilities, and their stories are contrasted with R. Edgerton's classic study, "The Cloak of Competence." (PHR)

Recent amendments to the Economic Opportunity Act required Head Start programs to increase the number of "handicapped" children to ten percent of those served. Using an interactionist perspective and participant observation data from 30 programs, this paper discusses the effect of the legislation on local programs, the process by which official rat...

Quotes at length edited transcripts of discussions with a 26-yr-old man who has been labeled mentally retarded, and raises questions about the concepts of intelligence and mental deficiency. The insider's view offers understanding of how diagnostic categories affect the life of the person categorized. (23 ref)

Taking the position that too little attention has been given to the systematic study of the nature of, and dangers in, the relationship between sponsors of evaluation research and social scientists, this paper offers statements of situations, relationships, and conditions one should avoid or foster in doing such research. Suggestions are given conc...

Drawing upon participant observation data from a number of studies of wards in state schools for the "mentally retarded," this paper presents findings dealing with attendants' perspectives. More specifically, it deals with those aspects of attendants' definitions of supervisors, their jobs, and residents that relate to the implementation of "innova...

This article details the rise of freak shows from 1840 to 1940 in America, drawing from the extensive collection found in the Ron Becker Collection in the Syracuse University Special Collections. The exhibits played upon the superstitions and prejudices of popular American culture, and every exhibit was a fraud of some sort. The photographs of thes...

in society in terms of what takes place in the schoolhouse. Although we do not believe that such a model works very well for any child or, for that matter, any teacher, it works especially poorly and leads to serious problems when the children are the so-called handicapped and the teachers have been charged with the develop­ ment of responsible pro...

Traducción de: Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods

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