Social Representations of Physical Disability in a Professional Environment

In: Journal of applied social science: an official publication of the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 66-79

Abstract

Our article addresses disability as a social construct. More precisely, our intention is to see to what degree practices and exchange and interaction situations operate on social representations of physical disability in professional environments. Our aim is to provide some elements for reflection with regard to the imagined issues of physical disability in the workplace by focusing, in particular, on the social representations that they trigger among employees and managers who work with disabled colleagues on a day-to-day basis.