Studia nad niepełnosprawnością a wyobraźnia socjologiczna
Disability Studies and Sociological Imagination

Summary/Abstract: Referring to the concept of sociological imagination introduced by Charles Wright Mills, the authors reflect on the place of disability studies in sociology. Presenting theoretical models of disability in social sciences becomes a starting point for a discussion of methodological insights concerning research based on the social model of disability. They are analyzed both from the point of view of complementarity between research and emancipatory dimension and as a combination of individual, structural and civic perspectives. The authors situate their research in the perspective of feminist methodology and public sociology. They stress its process aspect and empowering effects as well as the resulting breach of traditional relationship between the researcher and the subject. They also discuss the avoidance of imposing the researcher’s conceptual network and recognition of the participants’ competences as well as the necessity to provide for as full an accessibility as possible as a condition of subjective approach to the participants of research.

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