Book review. Exploring Disability; Author BARNES, C et al. The book was written in a sociological view about how disabled people are excluded from the mainstream of economic and social review.

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BOOK REVIEW

EXPLORING DISABILIITY; AUTHOR; BARNES, C et al

The book was written in a sociological view about how disabled people are excluded from the mainstream of economic and social review. In the introduction, this book revealed how policy makers and politicians in most rich or poor countries come up with legislative frameworks to work with some of the exclusion of people with physical impairment or disability.

The book also highlighted some form of studies and increase in the range of academic disciplines which brings out the growth of disability studies, courses and also different journals across different countries. The introduction of the book also reveals the organisations controlled and run by disabled people themselves and the changes stimulated by non-disabled who work within the organisations, for an example Tom Shakespeare. (Hunt 1966, Bowe 1978)There were also Jargons which were used of which I had to take note of as most of them are going to help, me in my second year of my degree programme especially on the unit of Controversial issues in a disabling society.

The author, also on sociological insights brought conventional thinking and practise regarding disability. He argued that disability was referred