Robert A. Scott

The Making of Blind Men (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The disability of blindness is a learned social role. The various attitudes and patterns of behavior that characterize people who are blind are not inherent in their condition but, rather, are acquired through ordinary processes of social learning.

The Making of Blind Men is intended as a systematic and integrated overview of the blindness problem in America. Dr. Scott chronicles which aspects of this problem are being dealt with by organizations for the blind and the effectiveness of this intervention system. He details the potential consequences of blind people becoming clients of blindness agencies by pointing out that many of the attitudes, behavior patterns, and qualities of character that have been assumed to be given to blind people by their condition are, in fact, products of socialization.

As the self-concepts of blind men are generated by the same processes of socialization that shape us all, Dr. Scott puts forth the challenge of reforming the organized intervention system by critically evaluating the validity of blindness workers' assumptions about blindness and the blind. It is felt that an enlightened work force can then render the socialization process of the blind into a rational and deliberate force for positive change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351479868
• Artikelnr.: 49263336

Autorenporträt

Robert A. Scott

Inhaltsangabe

FOREWORD
by Wesley D. Sprague
PREFACE
by Orville G. Brim
Jr.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1. THE SOCIALIZATION OF THE BLIND
CHAPTER 2. THE SOCIALIZATION OF THE BLIND IN PERSONAL INTERACTION
CHAPTER 3. WHO ARE THE BLIND?
CHAPTER 4. THE SELECTION OF CLIENTS FROM THE BLIND POPULATION
CHAPTER 5. THE SOCIALIZATION OF THE BLIND IN BLINDNESS AGENCIES
CHAPTER 6. DETERMINANTS OF A BLINDNESS AGENCY'S APPROACH TO REHABILITATION
CHAPTER 7. LIVING WITHOUT BLINDNESS AGENCIES
CHAPTER 8. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
APPENDIX A. HISTORY OF WORK FOR THE BLIND
APPENDIX B. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SCIENTIFIC THEORY AND PRACTICE THEORY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX