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Symbolic violence, the apparatus of normalization and/or stigma? Goffman, Foucault, Bourdieu, and the sociology of disability
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ÖZS. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 2011-12, Vol.36 (4), p.89-106
Erscheinungsjahr
2011
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Is Pierre Bourdieu's sociology helpful in order to analyse dis/ability as social construction? As a first step, this paper offers a sketch of the German-speaking sociology of disability. Subsequently, it considers two approaches which are already established in this discourse. Erving Goffman's stigma theory focuses on "doing dis/ability", but it reveals a naturalistic core, when it comes to phenomena of embodied difference. Drawing on Michel Foucault, his discourse analysis and theory of power, one can analyse "making dis/ability" by using the dimensions of discourse, discipline, normativity and normalization, but the level of agency tends to be neglected. Thirdly, the article looks at Bourdieu's concept of symbolic violence as a possible contribution to the sociology of disability. This concept proposes that dis/ability can be described as an embodied effect of power relationships; it brings the aspect of "being disabled" into view. Finally, the paper discusses the added value created by the triangulation of the three theoretical approaches; it concludes with suggestions to be drawn from the analysis of disability for the sociology after Bourdieu. Adapted from the source document.