Modelle von Behinderung und historische Entwicklungslinien von Behinderungsprozessen: Ein prozesssoziologischer Versuch

Existing Models of disability show less historical grounding and, due to their partly political motivation, can hardly serve as the framework for a – still outstanding – theory of disability. The process-sociological model according to Norbert Elias, on the other hand, offers a theoretical framework for the description and explanation of historical developments, which avoids fragmented perspectives and affective interpretations of historical phenomena and enables diachronic, empirically based comparison of epochs as a synthesis. Applied to the phenomenon of disability, a historical analysis of disability processes and their directional changes over the centuries can expand today’s perspective and, if necessary, provide impulses for future ways of dealing with the phenomenon, which is continuously gaining social importance.