Dilemmas in the Legal Treatment of the Status of People Living with Disabilities

• Authors: Ildikó Laki , László Tóth
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The legal treatment of disability affairs carries in itself an inherent contradiction due to the nature of modern society and free-market economy. On the one hand both the historically developed notions of essentialism and on the other the particular-functional definition of manhood drawing its roots from the established democratic order and market economics are present simultaneously. However, within the current order of things there is an unbridgeable divide between them. Nevertheless, with the progression of time there is a slow gradual shift discernible away from the functional definition with the parallel strengthening of the essentialist approach. This shift is further exaggerated by the more widespread acceptance of the rights of self-determination and the provision of opportunities for the disabled, the emergence of social self-determination in case of a population subgroup living under special conditions. For the proper interpretation of the currents in the evolution of legal treatment of disabled people it would be indispensable to institute a proper social-discourse analysis, which, however, exceeds in scope its narrowly defined task.

Keywords

EN

disabilities; social dilemmas; legal questions; integration strategies

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Practice and Theory in Systems of Education
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 97-106

Dates

received

2014-11-28

online

2015-03-01

accepted

2015-03-01

Contributors

author

Ildikó Laki

• University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

author

László Tóth

• University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

References

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/ptse-2015-0009