Abstract

ROSATO, Ana et al. The Role of the Ideology of Normality in the Production of Disability. Cienc. docencia tecnol. [online]. 2009, n.39, pp.87-105. ISSN 1851-1716.

This paper is aimed to show the way in which the term disability is understood going way beyond the biological and natural domains as they are fixed in the common sense. Our hypothesis is that the term disability has to be thought in the context of the social relations as well as of the material and symbolic meaning production processes in our society. In this regard our proposal was to trace the roots of the use of that term establishing the historical, social and political conditions which constitute subjects invoking "biological" and "body" supposedly based "in nature" reasons. In doing so, we demónstrate how in that context disability is a category within a classification system which produces subjects, from the idea of a "unique normalcy" that functions as a measure parameter of normal/abnormal, as well as an ideology that legitimizes inequality and asymmetric relationships.

Keywords : Social work; Disability; Ideology; Normality; Exclusion.

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