Is there a disability culture? A syncretisation of three possible world views
Is there a disability culture? A syncretisation of three possible world views
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DOI：
10.1080/09687590050058198
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发表时间：
2000-06-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Peters, S
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作者：
Peters, S
存在残疾人文化吗？或者残疾人只是个人——或者充其量是社会/政治少数群体——努力融入主流文化（无论是什么）？作者对洛伊丝·布拉格的论点提出了质疑，即聋人文化存在，但残疾文化不存在。本文首先从历史上追溯了文化的不同概念，从 E.B.泰勒的《原始文化》（1871）到库珀、吉鲁和麦克拉伦的后现代叙述。利用广泛的这些概念，发展了三种可能的残疾文化世界观：作为历史/语言的文化、作为社会/政治的文化和作为个人/审美的文化。从这些替代方案中，提出了一个宏观社会学框架来评估每一种世界观，以及在选择哪种世界观时需要考虑的一系列道德问题。本文最后提出了对残疾文化的综合看法，并断言残疾文化的体验是一种蓬勃发展的跨文化现象，不分国界，特别是不仅限于玛莎葡萄园岛和美国聋人。
Is there a disability culture? Or are disabled people simply individuals-or at best a socio/political minority group-striving to fit in to the dominant culture (whatever that is)? The author challenges Lois Bragg's contention that Deaf Culture exists, but not Disability Culture. The paper first traces historically the different conceptualisations of culture, beginning with E.B. Tylor's Primitive Cultures (1871) through to post-modern accounts by Kuper, Giroux and McLaren. Using a wide range of these concepts, three possible world views of disability culture are developed: Culture as Historical/Linguistic, Culture as Socio/Political, and Culture as Personal/Aesthetic. From these alternatives, a macro-sociological framework is set forth to evaluate each of these world views, as well as a set of ethical questions to consider in choosing which one might be most robust. The paper concludes with a proposal for a syncretized view of disability culture and asserts that the experience of disability culture is a thriving cross-cultural phenomenon which knows no national boundaries-and in particular, is not limited to Martha's Vineyard and American Deaf people.