Published: 2018-11-26

The Deaf/deaf – beyond the margins of “the world of hearing”

Zuzanna Teper-Solarz

Abstract

The deaf – according to the author – is from a sociological perspective the most interesting statistical cate-gory of disabled people. Some of them belong to linguistic – cultural minority known as „the Deaf world”, some are trying to be a part of the hearing section of the population, the rest is living between those two worlds. No matter which group they are identifying with, no matter when it has a place, no matter where it happens – almost all off the deaf, everywhere and always has been living beyond the margins of the hearing society. Where, or we should rather ask, who is the origin of this exclusion? The problem is not that the deaf can’t hear but that the hearing are not listening – they remain deaf for the deaf problems. The years of silent about „silent fellow citizens” build the wall made of stereotypes between the deaf and hearing worlds that cannot be easily break. Nowadays deafness, hidden in the shadows of prejudice for ages, becomes a part of our everyday life, but the deaf still remain beyond the margins of many areas of „the world of hearing”.

Keywords:

the deaf, the Deaf, marginalization, exclusion

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Teper-Solarz, Z. (2018). The Deaf/deaf – beyond the margins of “the world of hearing”. Academic Journal of Sociology, 14(1). Retrieved from https://czasopisma.uksw.edu.pl/index.php/ucs/article/view/2881

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