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1University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Disability studies offers a unique lens for social inquiry by examining how perceptions of disability, like dyslexia, reveal the social construction of interpretation. This approach highlights how understanding disability can illuminate the taken-for-granted processes of perception and meaning-making.
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Area of Science:
- Social Sciences
- Disability Studies
- Sociology of Interpretation
Background:
- Disability studies provides a framework for analyzing how individuals interpret disability.
- Impairment experiences can disrupt normative common-sense, offering insights into interpretive processes.
- Perception of disability can create a 'pause' in everyday understanding, prompting reflection on interpretation.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore disability studies as an interpretive method for social inquiry.
- To investigate how attention to dyslexia as an interpretive act influences social research.
- To examine perception and disability-perception as critical junctures for understanding interpretation.
Main Methods:
- Treating interpretive methods as inquiry into the social activity of interpretation.
- Analyzing dyslexia as an integral part of interpretive activity.
- Methodically engaging with appearances as interpretive encounters to study perception-as-interpretation.
Main Results:
- Dyslexia serves as a 'primal scene' for understanding the social order of interpretation.
- The perception of dyslexia reveals how normative expectations shape interpretations of language and literacy.
- Dyslexia is examined as both a disruption and a sense-making device within literate culture.
Conclusions:
- Disability perception, particularly through experiences like dyslexia, offers a valuable method for social inquiry.
- Examining dyslexia illuminates the taken-for-granted social construction of interpretation and normative values.
- The study underscores the utility of disability studies in revealing the complex interplay between perception, interpretation, and social order.