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Routledge
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Routledge
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The disability of blindness is a learned social role. The various attitudes and patterns of behavior that characterize people who are blind are not inherent in their condition but, rather, are acquired through ordinary processes of social learning. The Making of Blind Men is intended as a systematic and integrated overview of the blindness problem in America. Dr. Scott chronicles which aspects... Read more
FOREWORD, by Wesley D. Sprague, PREFACE, by Orville G. Brim, Jr., ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, INTRODUCTION, CHAPTER 1. THE SOCIALIZATION OF THE BLIND, CHAPTER 2. THE SOCIALIZATION OF THE BLIND IN PERSONAL INTERACTION, CHAPTER 3. WHO ARE THE BLIND?, CHAPTER 4. THE SELECTION OF CLIENTS FROM THE BLIND POPULATION, CHAPTER 5. THE SOCIALIZATION OF THE BLIND IN BLINDNESS AGENCIES, CHAPTER 6. DETERMINANTS OF A BLINDNESS AGENCY’S APPROACH TO REHABILITATION, CHAPTER 7. LIVING WITHOUT BLINDNESS AGENCIES, CHAPTER 8. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS, APPENDIX A. HISTORY OF WORK FOR THE BLIND, APPENDIX B. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SCIENTIFIC THEORY AND PRACTICE THEORY, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX
Biography
Robert A. Scott
