Acknowledgements. Glossary. Foreword. Introduction. Part 1: Ideologies, Issues and Practices. 1. The Mentally Retarded: Ideologies of Care and Surplus Population. 2. Comparative Special Education: Ideology, Differentiation and Allocation in England and the United States. 3. The Politics of Integration in England. 4. The Differential Diagnosis of Special Education: Managing Social Pathology as Individual Disability. 5. The Role of the Educational Psychologist in the Post-Warnock Era. Part 2: The Nature and Uses of Qualitative Approaches. 6. The Labelling of Educable Mentally-retarded Children. 7. Case Studies of Mainstreaming: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach to Special Schooling. 8. Adolescence and Physical Imparement: An Interactionist View. 9. Socially Produced Identities, Intimacy and the Problem of Competence among the Retarded. Notes on Contributors. Indices.