Przemoc symboliczna w rehabilitacji osób autystycznych
Symbolic violence in the rehabilitation of autistic people

Summary/Abstract: This study is the attempt of the description of the symbolicviolence serving the reproduction of the social structure in the rehabilitationof autistic persons. The starting point of this analysis is thethesis that people without disabilities act and think in an „oppressive”towards people with disabilities, however, are not always awareof this. The same therapists use symbolic violence against disabledpersons, including autism. Symbolic violence is fundamentally theimposition of categories of thought and perception upon dominatedsocial agents who then take the social order to be just. It is theincorporation of unconscious structures that tend to perpetuate thestructures of action of the dominant. The dominated then take theirposition to be „right”. Symbolic violence is in some senses muchmore powerful than physical violence in that it is embedded in thevery modes of action and structures of cognition of individuals, andimposes the spectre of legitimacy of the social order.

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