Through the Many to the One: Diverse Human Worlds and the Path to Human Understanding
The phenomenology of the life-world as described by Alfred Schutz and Thomas Luckman offers disability studies a powerful way of understanding the nature of disabled conditions. Rather than understanding disability through the medical model or the social model, a life-world approach enables disabili...
| Published in: | Journal of disability & religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2015]
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Journal of disability & religion
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| Summary: | The phenomenology of the life-world as described by Alfred Schutz and Thomas Luckman offers disability studies a powerful way of understanding the nature of disabled conditions. Rather than understanding disability through the medical model or the social model, a life-world approach enables disability to be understood in its peculiarity but at the same time recognized in its humanity. Phenomenological analysis is thus a third way, which deepens understanding whilst contributing to the creation of equality. However, the integrity of disabled life-worlds faces a history of the refusal of the majority to perceive them. This point is illustrated both through the history of the education of blind and deaf children and through modern difficulties of the normal in understanding disabled life-worlds. The study concludes by claiming that only when the smaller life-worlds are recognized will it be possible to move towards a culture of wholeness. |
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| ISSN: | 2331-253X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of disability & religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/23312521.2015.1062349 |