Between normality and disability: Sensitive cognitive boundaries

Journal title WELFARE E ERGONOMIA
Author/s Ève Gardien
Publishing Year 2021 Issue 2021/1
Language English Pages 13 P. 104-116 File size 273 KB
DOI 10.3280/WE2021-001010
DOI is like a bar code for intellectual property: to have more infomation click here

Below, you can see the article first page

If you want to buy this article in PDF format, you can do it, following the instructions to buy download credits

Article preview

FrancoAngeli is member of Publishers International Linking Association, Inc (PILA), a not-for-profit association which run the CrossRef service enabling links to and from online scholarly content.

Within the framework of a cognitive sociology of everyday life (Schütz, 1962; Berger and Luckmann, 1966; Zérubavel, 1997), this article proposes to explore the effects of normality and of norms, accepted as reality/truth, on people who are experiencing rare situations. First, we will analyze the practical consequences of these norms on the use of the body and the physical environment. Then, based on the sociology of knowledge of everyday life, we will ex-plain the partial lack of semanticization (Gardien, 2008) of the reality lived by people in rare situations. These analyses will highlight the major role of generally accepted criteria of rele-vance, and of the poorly recognized perceptual and cognitive boundaries that result from them. The conclusion will lead to courses of action aimed at broadening the field of intersub-jectivity to include greater cognitive diversity.

Keywords: disability; diversity; cognition; normality; intersubjectivity; peerjectivity.

  1. Berger P. et Luckmann T. (1996 [1966]). La construction sociale de la réalité. Paris: Armand Colin.
  2. Borkman T. (1976). Experiential Knowledge - New Concept for Analysis of Self-Help Groups. Social Service Review, 50(3): 445-456.
  3. Bourdieu P. (1997). Méditations pascaliennes. Paris: Seuil.
  4. Brunelles P. (1992). Ergothérapeutes et relations thérapeutiques. Handicap et Inadaptations, 60: 51-67.
  5. Campbell J. and Oliver M. (1996). Disability Politics – Understanding our past, changing our future. London and New York: Routledge.
  6. Campbell F.K. (2009). Contours of Ableism - The production of Disability and Abledness. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  7. Case B.J. (2003). Universal Design. Policy report, Pearson Education.
  8. Chamberlain J. (1978). On our Own – Patient-controlled Alternatives to the Mental Health System. New York: Hawthorn Books INC.
  9. Descartes R. (2016 [1637]). Discours de la méthode. Paris: Flammarion.
  10. Downes S.M. (1993). Socializing Naturalized Philosophy of Sciences. Philosophy of Science, 60: 452-468.
  11. Fougeyrollas P. (2010). La funambule, le fil et la toile. Transformations réciproques du sens du handicap. Québec: Presses Universitaires de Laval.
  12. Gardien E. (2008). L’apprentissage du corps après l’accident. Presses Universitaires de Grenoble.
  13. Gardien E. (2017). L’accompagnement et le soutien par les pairs. Fontaine: Presses Universitaires de Grenoble.
  14. Gardien E. (2020). Pairjectivité: des savoirs expérientiels ni objectifs, ni subjectifs. Education et socialisation. Les cahiers du CERFEE, 57 [En ligne].
  15. Godrie B. et Dos Santos M., dir. (2017). Injustices épistémiques. Montréal: Presses Universitaires de Montréal.
  16. Goffman E. (1963). Stigma. Prentice-Hall.
  17. Goodley D. (2014). Dis/ability Studies - Theorising disablism and ableism. London and New York: Routledge.
  18. Kant E. (1990). Critique de la raison pure. Presses Universitaires de France.
  19. Mace R.L. (1998, June). A perspective on universal design. An edited excerpt of a presentation at Designing for the 21st Century: An International Conference on Universal Design. Retrieved December 26, 2002 -- from: www.adaptenv.org/examples/ronmaceplenary98.php.
  20. Mauss M. (1936). Les techniques du corps. Sociologie et anthropologie. Paris: PUF, pp. 363-386.
  21. OMS (2001). La classification international du fonctionnement, du handicap et de la santé. Genève: OMS.
  22. Schütz A. (1962). Collected Papers. I: The Problem of Social Reality. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.
  23. Tabin J-P., Piecek M., Perrin C. et Probst I., dir. (2019). Repenser la normalité: perspectives critiques sur le handicap, Lormont: Editions Le Bord de l’eau.
  24. Vigarello G. et Vivès J. (1983). Technique corporelle et discours technique. Revue EP&S, 184: 40-47.
  25. Young I.M. (2000). Democraty and Inclusion. Oxford University Press.
  26. Zérubavel E. (1991). The fine line – Making distinctions in everyday life. The University of Chicago Press.
  27. Zérubavel E. (1997). Social Mindscapes – An invitation to Cognitive Sociology. Harvard University Press.

Ève Gardien, Between normality and disability: Sensitive cognitive boundaries in "WELFARE E ERGONOMIA" 1/2021, pp 104-116, DOI: 10.3280/WE2021-001010