Murray K Simpson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 293155 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Murray K Simpson |
| PRENOMES | Murray K |
| SOBRENOME | Simpson |
| ASSINATURA | SIMPSON M K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Dundee |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7008-5877 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 20 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
An attitudinal study of adolescents in Shandong Province, China, towards peers with intellectual disabilities
Public attitudes towards people with intellectual disability (ID) remain under-investigated in China. This exploratory study looks at this issue through an examination of adolescents’ attitudes across urban and rural areas in Shandong Province, utilising the CATCH Scale alongside demographic analysis. Results yielded comparable levels of affective, behavioural, and cognitive attitudes, which surpassed the neutral threshold whilst falling below be…
Lordship and bondage in the dialectics of social work
This article provides an innovative reading of the relationship between social work and the regulatory bodies mandated to register and regulate it, which has hitherto remained largely untheorised. It achieves this by utilising Hegel’s illustrative tale of ‘lord and bondsman’. This narrative outlines the development of consciousness through dialectical struggle. We argue that the relationship of domination and servitude that has developed between …
The Private Library
"The Private Library: Being a More or Less Compendious Disquisition on the History of the Architecture and Furnishing of the Domestic Bookroom, by Reid Byers." Library & Information History, 37(3), pp. 234–235
The Social Work Regulator and Professional Identity
Since the early 2000s, in a development since mirrored throughout much of the Anglophone world, social work across UK jurisdictions has been subject to external regulation. Whilst a key justification for regulation was to enhance professional identity, there is little evidence that it has done so. Indeed, a growing literature points out conflictual and unproductive relationships between the social work profession and its regulators, within which …
Power, Ideology and Structure
Since its first formulation in English, the ‘principle of normalization’ has had a profound impact on policy and practice in the field of intellectual disability. Over the past fifty years, normalization, and Social Role Valorization, have drawn on liberal humanist philosophy, adopting varied and complex positions in relation to it. This article will consider an apparent structural correspondence between a discourse of ‘liberal equality’ with ver…
C.F. Goodey, A History of Intelligence and ‘Intellectual Disability’
In this breath-taking work of scholarly inquiry, C. F. Goodey demonstrates, and demonstrates with a forensic precision, that our modern understandings of ‘intellectual disability’ are the highly contingent, and even accidental, outcomes of various historical processes, which crystallised only around 400 years ago. Goodey goes beyond establishing that intellectual disability is not a ‘natural kind’, arguing that, contrary to most constructionist a…
Working with Adults at Risk from Harm
Journal Article Working with Adults at Risk from Harm Get access Working with Adults at Risk from Harm, Margaret Greenfields, Roger Dalrymple and Agnes Fanning (eds), Maidenhead, McGraw Hill/Open University Press, 2011, pp. 196, ISBN 9780335241224 (pb), £22.99 Murray Simpson Murray Simpson School of Education, Social Work and Community Education, University of Dundee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Bri…
Othering intellectual disability
This paper considers two models of idiocy: one based around quantitative deviation from the norm and the other on qualitative variation. In doing so, the paper shows three things. First, it shows that apparently contradictory strategies coexist within the same discourses. Second, both cases produce the idiot as Other. Third, that the production and reproduction of Otherness creates difficulties in policing the conceptual boundary between the norm…
Xenoracism
This paper introduces the concept of xenoracism to social work in order to increase practitioners' awareness of the ever-shifting parameters of exclusionary discourses and to provide social work with a more in-depth understanding of current social policy for asylum seekers. It argues that social work continues to rely on outdated views and old-fashioned definitions of racism yet exclusionary discourses have since moved on. The paper posits that i…
From savage to citizen
In constructing a framework for the participation and inclusion in political life of subjects, the Enlightenment also produced a series of systematic exclusions for those who did not qualify: including ‘idiots’ and ‘primitive races’. ‘Idiocy’ emerged as part of wider strategies of governance in Europe and its colonies. This opened up the possibility for pedagogy to become a key technology for the transformation of the savage, uncivilised Other in…
The parent trap
One of the most telling indicators of change in the status of people with intellectual disabilities is in the regulation of their sexuality, reproduction and parenting. There is far greater recognition of certain basic rights that people with intellectual disabilities share with everyone else. This article traces the broad shifts in thinking about sexuality and parenting and intellectual disability over the past 100 years or so. The changes in th…
The parent trap
The moral government of idiots
This paper considers the role which moral treatment played in the treatment of idiots in the nineteenth century and particularly in the work of Édouard Seguin. It uses this discourse to identify some of the key elements of the definition of what constituted the 'moral', viz. teleology, discipline and humane treatment. By way of interpretation, moral treatment and the 'physiological method' of treating idiocy are presented as being based more on u…
Just Say 'No'? Alcohol and People with Learning Difficulties
This paper analyses critically the scant literature which exists on the role of alcohol in the lives of people with learning difficulties. Though the research evidence is largely insecure, it does seem relatively clear that people with learning difficulties drink considerably less and abstain in higher numbers than the general population. In spite of this, the literature is predominantly characterised by a focus on the potential dangers of excess…
Normalisation and the Psychology of 'Mental Retardation
The 1950 and 1960s witnessed a revival of interest among psychologists in mental retardation closely associated with the development of a behaviourist model. These developments effected a decisive break in the discourse of retardation by inserting a 'behaviour' component into the definition of retardation. This strengthened claims by psychology of professional primacy vis-à-vis medicine. The objective of professional assertion helped create the c…
Alcohol and Elderly People
This article attempts to highlight the pressing need for social work to take more account of the existence of alcohol problems being experienced by many elderly people. Surveying the available sketchy data, it would appear that perhaps as many as 15% of elderly social work clients may have alcohol related problems. The article continues by considering whether a discernable pattern of elderly drinking is identifiable, concluding that the greatest …
Xenoracism
This paper introduces the concept of xenoracism to social work in order to increase practitioners' awareness of the ever-shifting parameters of exclusionary discourses and to provide social work with a more in-depth understanding of current social policy for asylum seekers. It argues that social work continues to rely on outdated views and old-fashioned definitions of racism yet exclusionary discourses have since moved on. The paper posits that i…
The parent trap
One of the most telling indicators of change in the status of people with intellectual disabilities is in the regulation of their sexuality, reproduction and parenting. There is far greater recognition of certain basic rights that people with intellectual disabilities share with everyone else. This article traces the broad shifts in thinking about sexuality and parenting and intellectual disability over the past 100 years or so. The changes in th…
The Social Work Regulator and Professional Identity
Since the early 2000s, in a development since mirrored throughout much of the Anglophone world, social work across UK jurisdictions has been subject to external regulation. Whilst a key justification for regulation was to enhance professional identity, there is little evidence that it has done so. Indeed, a growing literature points out conflictual and unproductive relationships between the social work profession and its regulators, within which …
From savage to citizen
In constructing a framework for the participation and inclusion in political life of subjects, the Enlightenment also produced a series of systematic exclusions for those who did not qualify: including ‘idiots’ and ‘primitive races’. ‘Idiocy’ emerged as part of wider strategies of governance in Europe and its colonies. This opened up the possibility for pedagogy to become a key technology for the transformation of the savage, uncivilised Other in…
Power, Ideology and Structure
Since its first formulation in English, the ‘principle of normalization’ has had a profound impact on policy and practice in the field of intellectual disability. Over the past fifty years, normalization, and Social Role Valorization, have drawn on liberal humanist philosophy, adopting varied and complex positions in relation to it. This article will consider an apparent structural correspondence between a discourse of ‘liberal equality’ with ver…
Just Say 'No'? Alcohol and People with Learning Difficulties
This paper analyses critically the scant literature which exists on the role of alcohol in the lives of people with learning difficulties. Though the research evidence is largely insecure, it does seem relatively clear that people with learning difficulties drink considerably less and abstain in higher numbers than the general population. In spite of this, the literature is predominantly characterised by a focus on the potential dangers of excess…
Alcohol and Elderly People
This article attempts to highlight the pressing need for social work to take more account of the existence of alcohol problems being experienced by many elderly people. Surveying the available sketchy data, it would appear that perhaps as many as 15% of elderly social work clients may have alcohol related problems. The article continues by considering whether a discernable pattern of elderly drinking is identifiable, concluding that the greatest …
Alcohol and Elderly People
This article attempts to highlight the pressing need for social work to take more account of the existence of alcohol problems being experienced by many elderly people. Surveying the available sketchy data, it would appear that perhaps as many as 15% of elderly social work clients may have alcohol related problems. The article continues by considering whether a discernable pattern of elderly drinking is identifiable, concluding that the greatest …
Normalisation and the Psychology of 'Mental Retardation
The 1950 and 1960s witnessed a revival of interest among psychologists in mental retardation closely associated with the development of a behaviourist model. These developments effected a decisive break in the discourse of retardation by inserting a 'behaviour' component into the definition of retardation. This strengthened claims by psychology of professional primacy vis-à-vis medicine. The objective of professional assertion helped create the c…
Just Say 'No'? Alcohol and People with Learning Difficulties
This paper analyses critically the scant literature which exists on the role of alcohol in the lives of people with learning difficulties. Though the research evidence is largely insecure, it does seem relatively clear that people with learning difficulties drink considerably less and abstain in higher numbers than the general population. In spite of this, the literature is predominantly characterised by a focus on the potential dangers of excess…
The moral government of idiots
This paper considers the role which moral treatment played in the treatment of idiots in the nineteenth century and particularly in the work of Édouard Seguin. It uses this discourse to identify some of the key elements of the definition of what constituted the 'moral', viz. teleology, discipline and humane treatment. By way of interpretation, moral treatment and the 'physiological method' of treating idiocy are presented as being based more on u…
The parent trap
One of the most telling indicators of change in the status of people with intellectual disabilities is in the regulation of their sexuality, reproduction and parenting. There is far greater recognition of certain basic rights that people with intellectual disabilities share with everyone else. This article traces the broad shifts in thinking about sexuality and parenting and intellectual disability over the past 100 years or so. The changes in th…
The parent trap
From savage to citizen
In constructing a framework for the participation and inclusion in political life of subjects, the Enlightenment also produced a series of systematic exclusions for those who did not qualify: including ‘idiots’ and ‘primitive races’. ‘Idiocy’ emerged as part of wider strategies of governance in Europe and its colonies. This opened up the possibility for pedagogy to become a key technology for the transformation of the savage, uncivilised Other in…
Othering intellectual disability
This paper considers two models of idiocy: one based around quantitative deviation from the norm and the other on qualitative variation. In doing so, the paper shows three things. First, it shows that apparently contradictory strategies coexist within the same discourses. Second, both cases produce the idiot as Other. Third, that the production and reproduction of Otherness creates difficulties in policing the conceptual boundary between the norm…
Xenoracism
This paper introduces the concept of xenoracism to social work in order to increase practitioners' awareness of the ever-shifting parameters of exclusionary discourses and to provide social work with a more in-depth understanding of current social policy for asylum seekers. It argues that social work continues to rely on outdated views and old-fashioned definitions of racism yet exclusionary discourses have since moved on. The paper posits that i…
C.F. Goodey, A History of Intelligence and ‘Intellectual Disability’
In this breath-taking work of scholarly inquiry, C. F. Goodey demonstrates, and demonstrates with a forensic precision, that our modern understandings of ‘intellectual disability’ are the highly contingent, and even accidental, outcomes of various historical processes, which crystallised only around 400 years ago. Goodey goes beyond establishing that intellectual disability is not a ‘natural kind’, arguing that, contrary to most constructionist a…
Working with Adults at Risk from Harm
Journal Article Working with Adults at Risk from Harm Get access Working with Adults at Risk from Harm, Margaret Greenfields, Roger Dalrymple and Agnes Fanning (eds), Maidenhead, McGraw Hill/Open University Press, 2011, pp. 196, ISBN 9780335241224 (pb), £22.99 Murray Simpson Murray Simpson School of Education, Social Work and Community Education, University of Dundee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Bri…
Power, Ideology and Structure
Since its first formulation in English, the ‘principle of normalization’ has had a profound impact on policy and practice in the field of intellectual disability. Over the past fifty years, normalization, and Social Role Valorization, have drawn on liberal humanist philosophy, adopting varied and complex positions in relation to it. This article will consider an apparent structural correspondence between a discourse of ‘liberal equality’ with ver…
The Social Work Regulator and Professional Identity
Since the early 2000s, in a development since mirrored throughout much of the Anglophone world, social work across UK jurisdictions has been subject to external regulation. Whilst a key justification for regulation was to enhance professional identity, there is little evidence that it has done so. Indeed, a growing literature points out conflictual and unproductive relationships between the social work profession and its regulators, within which …
The Private Library
"The Private Library: Being a More or Less Compendious Disquisition on the History of the Architecture and Furnishing of the Domestic Bookroom, by Reid Byers." Library & Information History, 37(3), pp. 234–235
Lordship and bondage in the dialectics of social work
This article provides an innovative reading of the relationship between social work and the regulatory bodies mandated to register and regulate it, which has hitherto remained largely untheorised. It achieves this by utilising Hegel’s illustrative tale of ‘lord and bondsman’. This narrative outlines the development of consciousness through dialectical struggle. We argue that the relationship of domination and servitude that has developed between …
An attitudinal study of adolescents in Shandong Province, China, towards peers with intellectual disabilities
Public attitudes towards people with intellectual disability (ID) remain under-investigated in China. This exploratory study looks at this issue through an examination of adolescents’ attitudes across urban and rural areas in Shandong Province, utilising the CATCH Scale alongside demographic analysis. Results yielded comparable levels of affective, behavioural, and cognitive attitudes, which surpassed the neutral threshold whilst falling below be…
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