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Parental Entrepreneurship: A Consumerist Response to Professional Dominance
Author(s) -
Darling Rosalyn Benjamin
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1988.tb02054.x
Subject(s) - dominance (genetics) , situational ethics , perspective (graphical) , entrepreneurship , social psychology , psychology , symbolic interactionism , sociology , developmental psychology , public relations , political science , biochemistry , chemistry , artificial intelligence , computer science , law , gene
This article explores the development of activism among parents of disabled children. Based on research with parents using a symbolic interactionist perspective, it discusses the predisposing conditions and situational contingencies that encourage parents to become activists for their children. Parental activism is viewed as a response to the failure of society to provide sufficient or appropriate resources to meet the needs of disabled children and their families. It involves seeking information and control and challenging authority. Development of the role is nurtured by interactions with others in similar situations and may result in a careerlike pattern, or entrepreneurship, as a way of life.