Life scraps/a patchwork quilt: Vignettes from the lives of Brenda and Jim

This qualitative inquiry explores the process of the social construction of disability and the meanings assigned to the disability by a mother and/with a son with cerebral palsy. Using the interpretative biographical methodology, vignettes were written in a journal by the mother. Applying the interpretative interactionism perspective, this dissertation describes the meaning of the problematic everyday life with interacting humans. The experience of the individual is connected to public responses to personal troubles.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Page, Brenda Kay

Contributors dc:contributor

• Chadsey-Rusch, Janis

• Sociology, Theory and Methods
• Women's Studies
• Education, Special
• Sociology, Individual and Family Studies

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1995 Page, Brenda Kay

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9624455
(UMI)AAI9624455

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/19950