USES, POSSIBILITIES AND DIFFICULTIES OF THE SOCIAL MODEL OF DISABILITY

Abstract

The social model of disability, which emerged in the 70's hand movement for the rights of people with disabilities Anglo, would
establish a conception of disability that would understand it as a form of oppression. This peculiar individualistic vision would dispute
symbolically looks disability, generating profound changes in contemporary ways of thinking this social phenomenon. These changes
can be viewed on the flat planes of the health and rights, among others. In these various uses of the model are crystallized but are
true to their original spirit? The objectives of this paper are to describe such applications, and analyze the possibilities and limits
social model of disability. To do this, first, the origin and basis of the Anglo-Saxon model is contextualized. In a second stage
expansion described various aspects of the social. Finally, in a third time, some criticisms made in the last ten years, from within
critical disability studies, which aim to point out some important conceptual problematic nodes be reviewed to enhance their own
critical faculties recover. The results of this study point to note that the social model of disability, recovered critically, enables many
possibilities from social science to: 1) make visible the persistence of various forms of exclusion and segregation affecting this
minority (especially in peripheral contexts as the Latin American); 2) promote the struggle for recognition of persons with disabilities;
3) to analyze modes of domination associated contemporary societies that go beyond the disability itself