Étapes et enjeux de la construction du handicap au sein des politiques sociales françaises : 1939-2005

Drawing on tools from the cognitive sociology of public action, such as frames of reference, the author analyses four pairs of concepts that seem to have been variably operational in France in the field of disability since the second world war: reeducation/maladjustment; integration/handicap; insertion/exclusion; inclusion/situation (of disability). Starting with childhood taken as an example, the author tries, for each pair, to specify the origins and the mediators, the stakes and the objectives, the criteria and the practical arrangements for action.