Social Construct of Disability

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

2 Assistance Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Payamenoor University, Iran

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This article deals with the social construction of inability within the society. The main question is how and through which mechanism inability is produced, and/or reproduced within the society. This article argues that the most important social factor in relation to inability is discrimination applied in a complex, effective and deceptive way, through institutions and structures of the society, and by so doing brings about serious problems for the disabled and the society. This article applying the foundings of a research done within Tehran, considers to mechanism of production and/or reproduction of discrimination, and consequently the disability of visually impaired students within the education institution, concludes this conclusion: Low-vision students being exposed to institutional discrimination which functions through exercising deprivations and inequality in opportunities, don't achieve to expected educational success, and experience inability. Disability through a social process which is institutional-structural discrimination, in fact, metamorphoses into inability, thus inability within the society comes into existence.

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