Sociology of Disability

Introduction. An important condition for the implementation of inclusion is to increase the inclusive
culture of both teachers and parents of children with special needs, and parents of children with conditional
developmental norms. The purpose of the study is to study the formation of an inclusive culture of parents
and legal representatives of children attending a preschool organization (children with conditional
development norms, with disabilities and attending inclusive groups) and to determine effective methods
for increasing its level.
Research methods. The questionnaire “Assessment of the formation of an inclusive culture in educational
organizations” (au-thor N.A. Pershina), the “Diagnostics of Goodwill” method (Campbell scale), and the
parental attitude test questionnaire (authors A.Ya. Varga and V.V. Stolin) were used. The study was conducted
on the basis of 3 preschool organizations, in groups of combined, compen-satory and inclusive orientation.
A total of 278 parents took part in the study.
Research results. It was determined that parents of children with disabilities who attend inclusive groups
have higher indicators for all components of inclusive culture (general indicator of the formation of an
inclusive culture – U = 12760.5 at p = 0.000; goodwill – U = 13912.5 at p = 0.000; parental attitude accepting
the child – U=15087.0 at p=0.000). The necessity of organizing interaction with parents of children with
conditional developmental norms has been proven.
Conclusion. The level of inclusive culture of parents of children with a conditional norm of development
determines not only the psychological climate in the children's team and, accordingly, the success of inclusion,
but also the spiritual and moral development of their own children.To solve the problem, it is proposed to
create a parent club, use discussion methods, round tables, jointly watch and discuss films and social videos
about the problems of people with disabilities, conduct quests and master classes on performing everyday
actions, but in the living conditions of people with different nosologies.

Celem niniejszego artykułu jest próba refleksji nad barierami ograniczającymi pełne i satysfakcjonujące uczestnictwo osób niepełnosprawnych na rynku pracy. Artykuł przedstawia wyniki badań osób z niepełnosprawnością ruchową, zaangażowanych w udział w projektach aktywizujących zawodowo, związanych z realizacją programu „Winda do pracy”. Dodatkowych odpowiedzi udzielały osoby, które nie uczestniczyły w tego typu działaniach.

Bu makale, yüzdeki sakatlıklara odaklanarak sakatlık çalışmaları ve duygular sosyolojisi alanlarının kesişim noktasında bir tartışma yürütmektedir. Makalenin ana argümanı, bir kişinin sakatlığı ile duyguları arasındaki ilişkinin yalnızca o kişinin psikobiyografik yapısından kaynaklanmadığı, aynı zamanda başkalarının sakatlığa ilişkin duygularından, algılarından ve önyargılarından etkilendiğidir. Makalenin ardında 2020-2023 yılları arasında niteliksel araştırma yöntemleri ile yürütülmüş bir alan araştırması bulunmaktadır. Araştırma, yüzünde sakatlık olan kişilerin duygularının toplumsallığı ile ilgili üç ana örüntüyü ortaya çıkarmıştır: Birincisi, sakatlığa ilişkin duygu dünyaları, toplumsal alanda sakatların içine çekildiği ve sağlamcılık ideolojisiyle belirlenmiş duygularla karşılaşmalarda biçimlenir. İkincisi, hastane ve okul gibi kurumlar sakatlığa dair önyargıların ve olumsuz duyguların yeniden üretildiği yerler olabilmektedir. Üçüncüsü, sakat kişiler kendilerine yönelen olumsuz duygularla başa çıkmak için dayanışma stratejileri geliştirirler ve birlikte katlanmaya, neşeye, arkadaşlığa başvururlar. Çalışmanın temel sonucuna göre toplumsal karşılaşmalar ve orada oluşan duygu atmosferi, benzer dışlanma deneyimi yaşayanların bir araya gelmesine, yardımlaşmasına, dayanışmasına ve sakatlıkları temelinde biyososyal ilişkiler geliştirmelerine zemin hazırlamaktadır.

Bu makale, yüzdeki sakatlıklara odaklanarak sakatlık çalışmaları ve duygular sosyolojisi alanlarının kesişim noktasında bir tartışma yürütmektedir. Makalenin ana argümanı, bir kişinin sakatlığı ile duyguları arasındaki ilişkinin yalnızca o kişinin psikobiyografik yapısından kaynaklanmadığı, aynı zamanda başkalarının sakatlığa ilişkin duygularından, algılarından ve önyargılarından etkilendiğidir. Makalenin ardında 2020-2023 yılları arasında niteliksel araştırma yöntemleri ile yürütülmüş bir alan araştırması bulunmaktadır. Araştırma, yüzünde sakatlık olan kişilerin duygularının toplumsallığı ile ilgili üç ana örüntüyü ortaya çıkarmıştır: Birincisi, sakatlığa ilişkin duygu dünyaları, toplumsal alanda sakatların içine çekildiği ve sağlamcılık ideolojisiyle belirlenmiş duygularla karşılaşmalarda biçimlenir. İkincisi, hastane ve okul gibi kurumlar sakatlığa dair önyargıların ve olumsuz duyguların yeniden üretildiği yerler olabilmektedir. Üçüncüsü, sakat kişiler kendilerine yönelen olumsuz duygularla başa çıkmak için dayanışma stratejileri geliştirirler ve birlikte katlanmaya, neşeye, arkadaşlığa başvururlar. Çalışmanın temel sonucuna göre toplumsal karşılaşmalar ve orada oluşan duygu atmosferi, benzer dışlanma deneyimi yaşayanların bir araya gelmesine, yardımlaşmasına, dayanışmasına ve sakatlıkları temelinde biyososyal ilişkiler geliştirmelerine zemin hazırlamaktadır.

Статья посвящена исследованию инклюзии в вузах г. Томска, проведенному в марте-ноябре 2020 г. Авторы исследовали состояние инклюзивного образования в томских вузах. Акцент был сделан на субъективной оценке состояния инклюзивной среды участниками образовательного процесса: студентами-инвалидами и представителями томских вузов. Были выявлены объективные проблемы, с которыми сталкиваются студенты с инвалидностью при поступлении в университет и в процессе обучения. В свою очередь представители вузов поделились информацией о том, насколько успешно создаётся инклюзивная среда в их учебных заведениях. Рассмотрены нормативно-правовые акты и релевантная литература, позволяющие изучить процесс внедрения инклюзивных идей в образовательную среду. Особое внимание уделяется концептуализации понятий «социальная эксклюзия», «сегрегация», «интеграция» и «инклюзия». Сделаны выводы о состоянии и перспективах развития инклюзивного образования в томских вузах. В целом респонденты позитивно оценили созда...

The evaluation of the pedagogical-theatrical project Trolls is a source of data on the
basis of which we propose the use of positive labeling categories. We expanded it by naming
the stages of this form of labeling: bewilderment, taming, initiation, and inclusion. We described the social consequences of gradually becoming familiar with differences, including
and placing people with disabilities in the center. We showed how the labeling mechanism
was used in artistic-educational activities and redirected toward a discussion of the values of
social diversity.
Trolls is a play and workshop created by the Theatre 21 Foundation. It is aimed at primary
school students and conducted in classrooms. Through explicit observations, and by referring
to the relations between theater educators and actors and class teachers, we examined what
the visit of the titular trolls, or actors from Theatre 21, most of whom have Down syndrome or
autism, brings to the school and how these actions resonate with the participants.
Owing to the processual character of the evaluation, we were able to discover new research
categories. Our research was of an abductive nature. Sensitizing concepts enabled the development of the main category of positive labeling.

RESUMO: O artigo, erigido mediante processo de revisão literária, objetiva apresentar as contribuições do grupo londrino denominado Disability Studies, arcabouço teórico pouco conhecido em terras brasileiras e cujos textos possibilitam uma transformação nuclear na maneira de interpretar a defi ciência, ao abordá-la como produto da insensibilidade da sociedade capitalista em incorporar as diferenças nas suas mais distintas esferas, portanto, obra de complexa discriminação institucional para a qual a única resposta apropriada é a ação revolucionária sobre a estrutura que nos circunscreve. Palavras-chave: Educação especial. Sociologia. Defi ciência. Contributions to a sociological thinking about disability ABSTRACT: The article, built through a process of literature review, aims to present the contributions of the London group called Disability Studies, whose theoretical framework is practically unknown in Brazilian territory and whose texts allow a nuclear transformation in the way disability is interpreted, by conceiving it as the product of the capitalist society's insensitivity to incorporate the diff erences-in all their distinct spheres-, therefore being the work of complex institutional discrimination towards which, the only adequate response is the revolutionary action upon the very structure that circumscribes us.

Disability studies and critical trauma studies are both deeply concerned with the social construction of meaning and identity. However, these disciplines often remain mutually disengaged, inadvertently overlooking shared mechanisms of oppression that foster stigma. This article explores the novel depiction of disability and trauma in the play Amy and the Orphans by Lindsey Ferrentino. Amy, a character with Down Syndrome, challenges disability stereotypes by exercising autonomy; she is not solely defined by her disability or her experiences of abuse. The theatrical narrative is one of both disability and trauma, encouraging a nuanced reflection on the origins of stigma and revealing how theatre can be used as a tool of resistance to reclaim agency through performances that challenge conventional ‘disability’ stereotypes.

La política de integración educativa en México ha estado sujeta a diversas interpretaciones, algunas de ellas sin sustento ni argumento teórico,lo que ha originado confusión, tanto en sus usuarios como en el grupo de sujetos a los que está destinado. En estas líneas analizamos grossomodo, el discurso político de la integración educativa desde una interpretación o anclaje sociológico, subrayando la importancia de la dimensión cultural en la interpretación de una política de esta naturaleza.

Доля людей с ограниченными возможностями здоровья (ОВЗ) составляет около 15 % от общего населения, что делает инвалидов самым многочисленным меньшинством в мире. Однако их охват системой высшего образования продолжает оставаться чрезвычайно низким. В ЕС от 24 % людей с инвалидностью имеют высшее образования, против 36 % без инвалидности, в Индии эта доля составляет только 0,63 % от общего числа студентов вузов. На основе анализа статистических данных, законодательных актов, регулирующих взаимодействие вузов с сот­рудниками-­инвалидами и СОВЗ, вузовских документов, отчетов специализированных служб, судебных кейсов, материалов академических и ведомственных изданий рассматриваются стратегии и практики по обеспечению доступности образования студентам с инвалидностью, выделяются проблемы. Представлены кейсы США, имеющих один из самых высоких показателей в мире соотношения количества студентов-­инвалидов, и Франции, имеющей существенно меньшую долю СОВЗ, но располагающей развитыми институ...

The paper presents the results of sociological research in the universities of the Tyumen Province, Russia (2081 questionnaires from 9 state institutions of higher education, 2016, April). In the paper, we consider only one aspect of inclusion, namely, joint training of healthy students and students with disabilities. The aim of the study is to assess the risks of inclusive education and its risk factors. Inclusive education is interpreted as 1) a social value, 2) an alternative to social exclusion 3) a resource for development, and 4) an educational innovation with risk potential. The authors developed the concept of «risk» and «risk-factor» for inclusive education, offering their classification. The responses is structured and grouped into three risks mega-groups: 1) general social risks, 2) institutional and group risks, and 3) risks for education actors. These include the risks of falling quality of general, tertiary and vocational education, the risks of social dependency, orga...

The term, disability encompasses a wide range of physical and cognitive impairments, which have been subject to various negative representations. Throughout history, disability has been regarded as a social stigma and disgrace, prompting a range of societal responses in different cultural settings. Therefore, disability has a culturally constructed meaning and history. While disability should be considered as a subject of inquiry as an epistemic category to counter the process of stigmatization, it has long been overlooked as a subject of epistemic inquiry. Recently, the epoch of disability studies has shaped a noble understanding of disability that challenges the cultural rhetoric of disability. Disability now signifies the process of marginalisation and stigmatisation toward people with disabilities. The meaning generally attributed to disability has been shifting historically and culturally. Hence, the paper seeks to explore the understanding of disability in order to inform the changing meaning of disability and the emergence of disability as an epistemic category to interrogate the process of 'otherness'.

The article presents a relatively new practice of home education for Russia. A survey of numerous studies shows that the transition to homeschooling is characteristic of families with a high value of family cohesion, for those who want to protect their children from the dubious influence of their peers, and for those who have a special idea of religious education. The most widespread home education ("homeschooling") has in the USA (up to 8% of schoolchildren), is allowed and is actively growing in many countries of Europe. The psychological aspect of the problem of home education is linked in the presented review mainly with the theme of family cohesion, although a number of researchers believe that homeschooling itself is only an additional and not the main factor of cohesion. According to the empirical study, Russian homeschoolers are faced with a large number of organizational problems in the transition to home education and with a lack of pedagogical competence of pare...

This article draws on discussions from three disability scholarships to examine discourses around wheelchair basketball tournaments in publicity campaigns in the past few years in Bangladesh, a country of the Global South. Nine texts have been chosen to examine such discourses. The representations of a wheelchair basketball tournament in the examined texts generally rotate around its roles to empower people with disabilities. The media typically endeavours to portray athletes with disabilities as heroes by displaying their eagerness to overcome their disabilities to be independent and autonomous citizens. Subsequently, this suggests that wheelchair basketball tournaments are solely beneficial for people with disabilities while depoliticizing the 'truth' that such tournaments foster the modernist notions of subjectivities that focus on maximizing peoples' potentiality. Further, such portrayals are situated within the expansions of the Paralympic Movement in the Global South, fostering Western notions of subjectivities in Bangladesh, and accommodate rather than challenge the power of perceived able bodies.

The paper presents the results of sociological research in the universities of the Tyumen Province, Russia (2081 questionnaires from 9 state institutions of higher education, 2016, April). In the paper, we consider only one aspect of inclusion, namely, joint training of healthy students and students with disabilities. The aim of the study is to assess the risks of inclusive education and its risk factors. Inclusive education is interpreted as 1) a social value, 2) an alternative to social exclusion 3) a resource for development, and 4) an educational innovation with risk potential. The authors developed the concept of «risk» and «risk-factor» for inclusive education, offering their classification. The responses is structured and grouped into three risks mega-groups: 1) general social risks, 2) institutional and group risks, and 3) risks for education actors. These include the risks of falling quality of general, tertiary and vocational education, the risks of social dependency, orga...

Статья посвящена исследованию инклюзии в вузах г. Томска, проведенному в марте-ноябре 2020 г. Авторы исследовали состояние инклюзивного образования в томских вузах. Акцент был сделан на субъективной оценке состояния инклюзивной среды участниками образовательного процесса: студентами-инвалидами и представителями томских вузов. Были выявлены объективные проблемы, с которыми сталкиваются студенты с инвалидностью при поступлении в университет и в процессе обучения. В свою очередь представители вузов поделились информацией о том, насколько успешно создаётся инклюзивная среда в их учебных заведениях. Рассмотрены нормативно-правовые акты и релевантная литература, позволяющие изучить процесс внедрения инклюзивных идей в образовательную среду. Особое внимание уделяется концептуализации понятий «социальная эксклюзия», «сегрегация», «интеграция» и «инклюзия». Сделаны выводы о состоянии и перспективах развития инклюзивного образования в томских вузах. В целом респонденты позитивно оценили созда...

This article explores twelve short narrative films created by women and trans people living with disabilities and embodied differences. Produced through Project Re•Vision, these micro documentaries uncover the cultures and temporalities of bodies of difference by foregrounding themes of multiple histories: body, disability, maternal, medical, and/or scientific histories; and divergent futurities: contradictory, surprising, unpredictable, opaque, and/or generative futures. We engage with Alison Kafer's call to theorize disability futurity by wrestling with the ways in which “the future” is normatively deployed in the service of able‐bodiedness and able‐mindedness (Kafer 2013), a deployment used to render bodies of difference as sites of “no future” (Edelman 2004). By re‐storying embodied difference, the storytellers illuminate ongoing processes of remaking their bodily selves in ways that respond to the past and provide possibilities for different futures; these orientations may ...

Доля людей с ограниченными возможностями здоровья (ОВЗ) составляет около 15 % от общего населения, что делает инвалидов самым многочисленным меньшинством в мире. Однако их охват системой высшего образования продолжает оставаться чрезвычайно низким. В ЕС от 24 % людей с инвалидностью имеют высшее образования, против 36 % без инвалидности, в Индии эта доля составляет только 0,63 % от общего числа студентов вузов. На основе анализа статистических данных, законодательных актов, регулирующих взаимодействие вузов с сот­рудниками-­инвалидами и СОВЗ, вузовских документов, отчетов специализированных служб, судебных кейсов, материалов академических и ведомственных изданий рассматриваются стратегии и практики по обеспечению доступности образования студентам с инвалидностью, выделяются проблемы. Представлены кейсы США, имеющих один из самых высоких показателей в мире соотношения количества студентов-­инвалидов, и Франции, имеющей существенно меньшую долю СОВЗ, но располагающей развитыми институ...

Disability ls Not Measles to the need for an ethical and moral framework to view this context and the social construction of disability, a framework that has been at odds with the positivist research tradition. It means that researchers must always be critical about the language they deploy, given the recognition that language has such power to shape the place of people with disabilities in our society. Finally, it means that wc must challenge the divisions between researchers and the researched that have kept the perspectives of people with disabilities outside the research process and the production of knowledge. Disability Is NotMeas/es was sparked by our decision to organize a forum on New Research Directions and Paradigms at the IXth Congress of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Mental Deficiency (IASSMD) in Australia in August 1992. Having worked from a rights and equality paradigm in Canada in carrying out research on public policy and disability, we were curious to make connections with other researchers who were also reexamining the premises of the study of disability. The IASSMD provided us with a place to begin those discussions on an international level and to begin thinking about the implications and challenges for traditional researchers. This collecthm reflects the work of only a few of the contacts we made in Australia and have made since that time, and only the tip of the iceberg of research that is heading in this dircction. We anticipate with excitement the further development of a critical framework for research in the disability field.

La temática de la discapacidad a nivel nacional ha permanecido alejada de perspectivas que abordan el tema desde políticas participativas de los sujetos discapacitados/as. El modelo médico y el modelo asistencial predominan en el campo de las políticas públicas que se desarrollan en esta área. Ahora bien ¿qué grado de responsabilidad le cabe a la sociedad si se enfoca la discapacidad como una mera patología a ser prevenida o rehabilitada o si se la toma como un ‘déficit’ individual que desde el estado se intenta ‘subsanar’? Repensar la discapacidad desde un enfoque que enfatice en la responsabilidad social en los procesos de inclusión y equidad es lo que a través del presente trabajo, desde una mirada interdisciplinaria se intenta plantear.

In the present WorkAbility deliverable the results of the accessibility
evaluation of important employers of the region of Central Macedonia are
presented.
These companies were considered by the project implementation team to
be potential employers of disabled persons, with some of them already
having disabled employees in their workforce.
The evaluation was conducted through the use of the methodology
developed in deliverable D3.2: “Methodology for the evaluation of
infrastructure and services”.

The principal aim of the WorkAbility project was to apply a holistic approach concerning underemployment and unemployment in the case of people with disabilities in Greece. A questionnaire survey was undertaken in the framework of WorkAbility to investigate the employment status of people with disabilities in the Region of Central Macedonia. A total of 306 persons with disabilities participated in the survey, of which 101 persons were deaf or hard-of-hearing, 100 persons vision-impaired and 105 persons were hemiplegics, paraplegics or tetraplegics. A statistical analysis of data collected was performed and interesting results have been drawn for the total sample as a whole and for each disability group separately. A set of different variables has been examined and the statistical significance between them has been also determined. Survey results are available online and can be exploited towards the establishment of accessible employment and entrepreneurship in Greece. JEL Classifica...

Yes, we fuck! (2015) is a documentary that seeks to portray the sexuality of people with functional diversity that focuses on their empowerment and critiques ableism. Its filming has helped to generate alliances between Spanish activist groups, which have been named Alianzas Tullido-Transfeministas (Crip-Queer Alliances). Based on a research project that combined traditional and digital ethnography, this article reflects on how these crip-queer alliances have been constructed. First, we present a genealogy that contextualizes key events and explains their origins. Second, we analyse the construction process of the alliances, from queer to crip and vice versa, in order to reflect on the notions of intimacy that these alliances mobilize, while analysing their discourses and performances around the body, bonding, desire and sexuality. Finally, we explain the potential, as well as the difficulties and challenges, of these alliances. We conclude that they have followed their own situated process, where activists bring into play their bodies, emotions and intimacies and thus generate enormous potential for political action that questions ableism and heteropatriarchy

Lineamientos para la investigación jurídica brinda al lector diversos elementos para la elaboración y desarrollo de proyectos de investigación aplicables a diferentes áreas de las ciencias sociales, aunque de manera particular aterriza su análisis en la ciencia jurídica, presentando resultados de la fusión de la investigación clásica con la moderna a través de perspectivas que dejan a un lado el estudio exclusivo dogmático del derecho, para conectar su objeto de estudio con otros objetos pertenecientes a diversas áreas del conocimiento que en conjunto brindan propuestas y posibles soluciones a problemáticas contemporáneas fruto del tránsito internacional de personas, la simultaneidad de actos, la extraterritorialidad de la norma jurídica y de otros fenómenos simplemente “complejos”.

Лапин Дмитрий Васильевич кандидат социологических наук, доцент кафедры социальной работы и социальной антропологии Новосибирского государственного технического университета Машанова Анна Сергеевна старший преподаватель кафедры социальной работы и социальной антропологии Новосибирского государственного технического университета Мельникова Мария Сергеевна старший преподаватель кафедры социальной работы и социальной антропологии Новосибирского государственного технического университета Ключевые слова: инклюзия, эксклюзия, инклюзивное образование, образовательное пространство, студенты вуза, доступная среда, процессы образования, результаты образования, инвалидность.

доктор психологических наук, профессор, академик РАО, главный научный сотрудник лаборатории специального и инклюзивного образования научноисследовательского института ГБОУ ВПО «Московский городской педагогический университет»; профессор кафедры специальной психологии факультета клинической и специальной психологии ГБОУ ВПО города Москвы «Московский городской психолого-педагогический университет»,

This book is a Modern-Historical Comparison between lived experiences in the current era by the author compared against the life of Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller`s teacher. The author draws on sociological & librarianship theories and Canadian Statistics.

Conclusion Health care professionals need to be appropriately supported and trained so they can provide adults with diabetes with information about the risks of DR, support them in reducing their risk, and advocate for the provision of affordable DR screening and treatment as required.

Аннотация Актуальность исследования данной проблемы обусловлена проблемой социализации детей с ограниченными возможностями здоровья. Успешная социализация и адаптация к новым условиям определяется сформировавшимся отношением к жизненно значимым ситуациям взаимодействия. Понимание причин ситуации, их рефлексия способствуют успешному прогнозированию. Данная статья направлена на выявление специфики отношения детей с ограниченными возможностями здоровья к значимым ситуациям в их жизни и понимания их причин. Ведущим методом в исследовании данной проблемы явился метод анкетирования и контентанализа ответов детей. Было опрошено 78 детей с различными нарушениями (нарушения зрения, слуха, опорно-двигательного аппарата и речи). В результате исследования выявлено, что дети с ограниченными возможностями здоровья часто относят причины возникновения травмирующих ситуаций к одним и тем же категориям, но есть и специфические описания. Показано, что особенности нарушения, как правило, обусловливают отношение детей к ситуациям жизнедеятельности. Ключевые слова: ситуации взаимодействия, антиципация, адаптация, нарушение слуха, нарушение зрения, нарушения опорно-двигательного аппарата, тяжелые нарушения речи.

The circumstantial understanding of the 'normal', ushered in by the spread of COVID 19, has been the practice of 'social distancing'. Exercising this 'new normal' has been a challenge in general for society. However, it is particularly important to recognize the psycho-social impact and analyse it through the lens of ageing in relation to experiences of disability. This paper therefore attempts to explore the experiences of uncertainties in the light of ageing with disabilities, pronounced during a time of crisis, leading to social distress. With the help of telephonic conversations, the paper discusses some of the stories of people living in Guwahati, in the age-group of 70 to 90, drawing on an intersectional understanding of personhood, social suffering, and symbolic disability. It is also an attempt to look into the aspect of wellbeing (physical, psychological and emotional) of the elderly amidst disabilities, while stepping into unfamiliar social boundaries of ambiguity, that further disable the elderly in terms of the sudden fading of the regular support structures and systematic foundations of the 'social' once known to them.

The circumstantial understanding of the 'normal', ushered in by the spread of COVID 19, has been the practice of 'social distancing'. Exercising this 'new normal' has been a challenge in general for society. However, it is particularly important to recognize the psycho-social impact and analyse it through the lens of ageing in relation to experiences of disability. This paper therefore attempts to explore the experiences of uncertainties in the light of ageing with disabilities, pronounced during a time of crisis, leading to social distress. With the help of telephonic conversations, the paper discusses some of the stories of people living in Guwahati, in the age-group of 70 to 90, drawing on an intersectional understanding of personhood, social suffering, and symbolic disability. It is also an attempt to look into the aspect of wellbeing (physical, psychological and emotional) of the elderly amidst disabilities, while stepping into unfamiliar social boundaries of ambiguity, that further disable the elderly in terms of the sudden fading of the regular support structures and systematic foundations of the 'social' once known to them.

Drug use continues to be one of the key public health problems, so it is particularly relevant to develop effective prevention programs targeted at different groups of young people. In this case, any preventive measure must necessarily rely on the results of empirical research. The article presents the results of the preparatory phase of the study of social representations about drug addicts, made in the framework of the theory of social representations (in the framework of the Geneva School ideas developed by V. Doisy and colleagues). The aim of the study was to identify the "map" of the common points of view in the discourse about drug addicts. The sample consisted of 308 people (195 men and 112 women, and one respondent did not state his gender), aged 16 to 47 years (median age is 25 years). The results provide empirical support for the hypothesis of the authors of the "map" of common points of view in the discourse about drug addicts.

Disability studies and critical trauma studies are both deeply concerned with the social construction of meaning and identity. However, these disciplines often remain mutually disengaged, inadvertently overlooking shared mechanisms of oppression that foster stigma. This article explores the novel depiction of disability and trauma in the play Amy and the Orphans by Lindsey Ferrentino. Amy, a character with Down Syndrome, challenges disability stereotypes by exercising autonomy; she is not solely defined by her disability or her experiences of abuse. The theatrical narrative is one of both disability and trauma, encouraging a nuanced reflection on the origins of stigma and revealing how theatre can be used as a tool of resistance to reclaim agency through performances that challenge conventional ‘disability’ stereotypes.

This paper explores the proposition that the world is shaped by language. It takes as axiomatic the notion, familiar to critical discourse analysis (CDA), that language (discourse) and society are mutually constitutive. It reviews several key notions of CDA, including framing, presupposition, naturalisation and memetic transfer to develop a model of the processes involved. Just as the institutional structures in society have been shaped, over the years, by the discourses that have circulated about them so, it is argued, the future of the planet depends on the successful naturalisation of the 'human agency hypothesis' in the matter of global warming. The paper uses CDA tools to examine a blog which advances the 'anti-human agency' hypothesis, to explore the way such ideas might be spreading around the worldwide web today. Although up to 97% of the world's scientists accept that human industrial activity is responsible for climate change, the fact that protocols such as that of Kyoto (1992) are consistently flouted demonstrates that meaningful social change has yet to result from widespread acceptance of the idea. The opposite hypothesis still finds supporters in the global business community and the U.S. Republican Party. Human agency in climate change, then, can be seen as the ultimate test case for the proposition that language and the social world are mutually constitutive, since the survival of the planet itself is at stake in the conflict between the two hypotheses.

Purpose – This chapter attempts to understand the impact of war,
conflict, and forced migration in the northwest border of India on the
security of the aged widows and the ways they respond, construct, and
negotiate their lives.
Methodology – The study is based on group discussions in villages and
camps and narratives of seven widowed women who were asked to tell the story of their lives.
Findings – The chapter highlights that widowed women’s agency was
exercised in a significant manner during the situations of war, conflict,
and forced migration, but it was largely circumscribed by the intersection
of patriarchy, rural structure, customary practices, and inheritance rights.
New norms and new roles were taken up in the migrant camps, but village
life with its traditional extended family structure was still considered ideal
for the social security it provided. However, aged widows are no longer
treated with respect and care, suggesting a decline in the traditional joint
family system and of the dominant position of elderly widowed women in
it.  This was accelerated in conflict situations.
Research implications – The research calls for focusing on women’s
agency and moving beyond the victimhood paradigm in women’s studies.
It highlights the significance of individual interpretations of events and the
relevance of qualitative methods such as life stories.
Value of chapter – The chapter is valuable for its work on themes such as
rural life, gender, and conflict studies and for policy makers to initiate
plans dealing with the problems of forced migrants and of the security of
the older people, particularly widows.

Disability ls Not Measles to the need for an ethical and moral framework to view this context and the social construction of disability, a framework that has been at odds with the positivist research tradition. It means that researchers must always be critical about the language they deploy, given the recognition that language has such power to shape the place of people with disabilities in our society. Finally, it means that wc must challenge the divisions between researchers and the researched that have kept the perspectives of people with disabilities outside the research process and the production of knowledge. Disability Is NotMeas/es was sparked by our decision to organize a forum on New Research Directions and Paradigms at the IXth Congress of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Mental Deficiency (IASSMD) in Australia in August 1992. Having worked from a rights and equality paradigm in Canada in carrying out research on public policy and disability, we were curious to make connections with other researchers who were also reexamining the premises of the study of disability. The IASSMD provided us with a place to begin those discussions on an international level and to begin thinking about the implications and challenges for traditional researchers. This collecthm reflects the work of only a few of the contacts we made in Australia and have made since that time, and only the tip of the iceberg of research that is heading in this dircction. We anticipate with excitement the further development of a critical framework for research in the disability field.

доктор психологических наук, доцент, профессор кафедры методологических проблем криминальной психологии факультета юридической психологии Московского городского психолого-педагогического университета, ведущий научный сотрудник НИЛ «Научно-методическое обеспечение экстренной психологической помощи» Центра экстренной психологической помощи Московского городского психолого-педагогического университета,

The article presents the results of the main directions of the exposition activity of the Moscow State University of Psychological and Education (MSUPE) presented at the 5th Moscow International Education Fair (MIEF), which was held April 18—21, 2018 in Moscow. The inclusive education was the key theme for the Moscow State University of Psychological and Education at MIEF. The content component of the university's exposure: three clusters, seven speakers, more than 60 thematic stands. Attention is drawn to the breadth of the participation of the MSUPE in discussing the issues of the ecosystem of education.

Disability studies and critical trauma studies are both deeply concerned with the social construction of meaning and identity. However, these disciplines often remain mutually disengaged, inadvertently overlooking shared mechanisms of oppression that foster stigma. This article explores the novel depiction of disability and trauma in the play Amy and the Orphans by Lindsey Ferrentino. Amy, a character with Down Syndrome, challenges disability stereotypes by exercising autonomy; she is not solely defined by her disability or her experiences of abuse. The theatrical narrative is one of both disability and trauma, encouraging a nuanced reflection on the origins of stigma and revealing how theatre can be used as a tool of resistance to reclaim agency through performances that challenge conventional ‘disability’ stereotypes.

Na perspectiva marxista, a pessoa com deficiência é um corpo fora da ordem capitalista, por ser um corpo de “menor valor” e “incapaz” para o trabalho e por isso um obstáculo para a produção. De fato, as pessoas com deficiência são um grupo social bastante invisibilizado das lutas anticapitalistas e dos debates sobre o mundo do trabalho no capitalismo contemporâneo, apesar da materialidade do corpo deficiente ser fortemente demarcada do ponto de vista da “aptidão” para o trabalho.

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New developments in biotechnology and their implications for criminal justice have brought the nature vs. nurture debate into poignant relief in recent years. Poorly articulated and for many years biased towards the knowledge traditions of the hard sciences, however, the debate yearns for a basic dualistic reformulation to come up to speed with the contemporary needs of society. Four levels of contention – epistemology, mankind’s place in the scale of life, singularity and the naturalistic fallacy - are traced through a review of the literature and theoretical thinking on this issue as it has developed over time. An unitary science that embraces both the biological and the social is required to match the pressing demands of biotechnological advances and handle their direct impact on the interpretation of deviant behavior in the courtroom.

The subject of the present survey, conducted in the frame of WorkAbility
project, is the employment status of persons with disability in the region
of Central Macedonia.
The present report consists of descriptive statistics, crosstabs with chi-
square tests, and a multinomial logistic regression. Regarding the term
“statistical significance”, in simple words it means that the spread of the
answers between groups is significantly not equal.
In statistical hypothesis testing, statistical significance (or a statistically
significant result) is attained when a p-value is less than the significance
level (as a matter of good scientific practice, a significance level is chosen before data collection, herein when the p-value is less than 5%). The p-value is the probability of obtaining at least as extreme results given that the null hypothesis is true whereas the significance level is the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis given that it is true. Herein almost always, the null hypothesis is that the spread of the answers is equal across all groups, thus when we have statistical significance in this data it means that the spread of the answers is not equal across groups.
The aim of this survey was to record the experiences and points of view of the people who are being studied, concerning employment of persons with disability in Central Macedonia, in order to highlight and improve the
current state of their employment, through improvements of accessibility
infrastructures and services.
The questionnaire was formed by members of the Transport Systems
Research Group of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (TSRG/AUTh) in cooperation with social scientists and groups of persons with disability (hearing impaired, visually impaired, paraplegic), after specific
bibliographical study.
The disability associations that participated in this survey were the
following:
 Panhellenic Association of the Blind - District Union of Central
Macedonia.
 Panhellenic Association of Paraplegics - District Union of Macedonia
and Thrace.
 Association of the Deaf of Northern Greece.
The first phase of the survey was conducted from March 2016 to April
2016. In this phase questionnaires were gathered by interviews in person
and by telephone. After the collection of the questionnaires was
concluded, the second phase of the survey started. In this phase, the
questionnaires were coded into meaningful data through data
manipulation, in order to be ready for the statistical analysis which
followed.
The questionnaire consisted of two parts, the first part with demographics and the second part with more targeted questions. More specifically:
Questions 1-13 were general questions common for all the interviewees.
They consisted of demographic questions, type of disability, level of
education, allowance and income questions.
At the following fields, the interviewees had to answer to the questions
below, choosing one of the three categories that represented them.
Which employment state currently describes you:
- Employed
- Unemployed or/and retired
- Never worked
Depending on one’s answer, the questionnaire referred the interviewee to
a specific field with more specific questions about his employment state
and status.

Sosyal organizasyonun azınlıkları da kapsamak yerine çoğunluğun istek ve ihtiyaçlarına göre tasarlanması, engelli bireylerin hayatları boyunca birbirinden farklı dezavantajlılık durumuyla karşı karşıya kalmalarının ana etmenlerindendir. Örneğin normallik ve sağlamcılığa dayanan toplumsal örgütlenme, engelli bireyleri dışlayan söylem ve pratiklerin üretilmesine neden olmaktadır. Sağlamcılık, engelli olmayanların engelli bireylerden daha üstün olduğuna dair önyargılı inancı ifade etmektedir. Dolayısıyla bu anlayış engelli bireylerin dışlanmalarına, damgalanmalarına, izole edilmelerine, ayrımcılığa uğramalarına ve mikro saldırılara maruz bırakılmalarına yol açmaktadır. Dünya üzerindeki “en büyük azınlık” kabul edilen engelli bireylerin karşılaştıkları
bu tip problemler engellilik meselesinin sosyal bir fenomen olarak incelenmesini gerekli kılmaktadır. Engellilerin karşılaştığı ayrımcı uygulamalarla ilgili birçok araştırma projesi yapılmış olsa da engellilere yönelik mikro saldırılar çoğunlukla fark edilmemekte ve çalışmalarda kendine fazla yer bulamamaktadır. Bu nedenle engelli
bireylerin hangi ayrımcı ve mikro saldırgan uygulamalarla karşılaştıkları ve deneyimlerini nasıl aktardıkları sorularının sorulması gerektiği sonucuna vararak
ayrımcılık ve mikro saldırganlık literatüründen yararlandım. Engellilerin deneyimlediği ayrımcılık ve mikro saldırganlıkları yorumlayıcı paradigmanın izinden giderek yorumlayarak analiz etmeyi amaçladım. Engelli bireylerin kendilerine yönelmiş ayrımcı pratikleri ve mikro saldırganlık örneklerini dijital medya platformlarından Twitter’da ifade ediyor ve seslerini duyuruyor olmalarını önemsedim. O nedenle nitel araştırma tekniklerinden olan içerik analizini kullandım ve Twitter’da açılmış olan #engellenmekistemiyoruz ve #sağlamcılardışarı başlıklı hashtag etkinliklerindeki verilerden yararlandım. Kimliğin yadsınması, ikincilleştirme ve egzotikleştirme temalarına ulaştım ve Twitter’daki engelli kullanıcıların anlatılarına yer verip sınıflandırma ve yorumlama süreçlerini tamamladım. Engelli bireylerin uğradıkları ayrımcılık ve mikro saldırıların çok farklı boyutlarda görülebildiğini örneklerle göstererek konunun daha fazla önemsenmesi gerektiğine dikkat çekmek istedim.

Elena Gaetana Faraci Title of Ph.D. in "Political Thought and Institutions in Mediterranean Societies" (XXI cycle) received on 26/02/2010 at the Faculty of Political Science, University of of Catania. Degree in Philosophy awarded on 24/03/1993 at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Catania with a a score of 110/110 cum laude. Degree in Education awarded on 19/03/2002 at the Faculty of Education, University of Catania with a score of of 100/110. (History of Political Institutions) in the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Catania, [email protected]

Nesta peça ensaio um breve panorama sociológico sobre algumas possibilidades de compreensão do termo deficiência emergentes ao longo do Século XX. Passando por discussões sociológicas e históricas, em diálogo com o campo dos disability studies, proponho alguns apontamentos sobre as possibilidades de uma "Sociologia da Deficiência ".