Yes, you can analyse the sociological origins of these terms
Capitalism itself is a social construct which can be critiqued by partisan
reserch.
All reserch should aim to have the properties of an asymptotic curve, you
can approach objectivity but never achieve it, the observation always having
the tendency to affect the outcome, and you will find that concept way back
in the writing of Karl Popper
Disability studies is a construct too, a sub branch of sociology not immune
from being dissected by that same discipline, itself recursively not immune
from deconstruction as a historical phenomenon of western thought.
I may seem rather cynical in my reading of reserch but I always try and
think what has x got to gain in terms of supporting proposition y instead of
proposition z
this list would have a bias toward accepting academic paradigms due to the
close cultural affinities of reserchers in subscribing to such notions when
they begin any course of academia, recieving ideas and transmitting them
thus becoming enculturated long before critical faculties develop. It is the
unfortunate nature and inequality of educational systems, to assume the
lerner has less to contribute than the teacher.
Larry
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> Subject: Origins of Autism; what causes the condition to wax and wane?
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> Aren't all these labels (ADHD, SPLD, Autism and the like) from medics, in
> fact just social constructs to keep them in jobs and explain
> away behaviour
> that capitalism creates but finds hard to cope with, precisely because it
> (the behaviour) isn't neurotypical?
>
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