Geneza uprzedzeń wobec niepełnosprawnych.
The origins of the prejudices against the disabled.

Selected theories

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims at discussing prejudice against people with disabilities. Prejudice is a fascinating, albeit uneasy research field. Despite the numerous studies carried out on the subject since long, a lot of issues concerning the origin, persistence, and weakening of prejudice, particularly with regard to the disabled, have remained unresolved. The autor’s intention is to ponder over the issues in question as they have been tackled by scholars so as to demonstrate the role both of the empirical research and selected theoretical concepts in explaining the phenomenon of prejudice. An important aim of this paper is also to demonstrate that the problem of prejudice against people with disabilities requires further analysis, whereas theoretical considerations and any further studies over the issue of disability should focus on the education “against” social prejudices.

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