The Social Context and Deficiency

The text emphasizes the vision of deficiency in the social context, a vision that has determined, throughout the times, a series of expectations directed to the group of handicapped individuals. These expectations have become the determining factors of the established inter-relationships th...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Saeta, Beatriz Regina Pereira
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:1999
Country:Brasil
Institution:Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (UPM)
Repository:Psicologia (Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie. Online)
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.editorarevistas.mackenzie.br:article/1141
Online Access:http://editorarevistas.mackenzie.br/index.php/ptp/article/view/1141
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:deficiency
expectations
interrelationships
deficiência
expectativa
interrelações
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Summary:The text emphasizes the vision of deficiency in the social context, a vision that has determined, throughout the times, a series of expectations directed to the group of handicapped individuals. These expectations have become the determining factors of the established inter-relationships that contain all the elements that are part of the social group. The author has searched in the Social Psychology contributions for a reflexion about the present forms of interrelationships among society and the handicapped individuals.