INVALIDITET I DEVIJANTNOST - SOCIOLOŠKI ASPEKT
DISABILITY AND DEVIANCE - SOCIOLOGICAL ASPECT

Summary/Abstract: People with physical disabilities often encounter isolation, segregation, and discrimination in their interactions with others. The number of people living with some kind of disability is quite large. According to some estimates in the world there are over 500 million people with some kind of light or heavy physical disability, either mental, physical or sensory impairment. Society considers both types, and visible physical damage and intellectual power as deviant because they deviate from normative concepts of 'normal' (expected) states, and such persons are faced with sanctioning processes that lead to social stigma. In this context, a disabled person obtains a deviant identity not necessarily because of what they have done, but because others have labeled the label with the printed undesirable differences that deviate from the total imaginary image. The identity of a disabled person differs from the identity of the perpetrator of deviant actions. Deviants can choose their (deviant) role, while a disabled person does not choose their status. Contemporary attitudes tend to see people with visible physical disabilities differently from other people; some people watch them today with pity or completely avoid them. The question of disability management raises two problems: first, when does disability become a problem for individual? More important, how does the disabled person manage society's stigma?

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