Fundamentals for the Analysis of Disability from the Social Vulnerability Perspective

Abstract

In this paper, we describe the development of a proposal to analyze disability from the social vulnerability perspective. It is part of a bigger project whose objective is to study everyday and extracurricular knowledge that disabled people learn through different agents and processes of socialization, especially educational institutions. We take three models as a base: the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), the different dimensions involved in human interaction and in social life, and the relationship between vulnerability, poverty and inclusion-exclusion. The purpose of this article is to place our proposal in the context of other models that understand disability as a socially developed problem and to assess the possibilities they offer us to analyze the different experiences of disability.