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By aeon_admin / October 25, 2023

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What Does Social Devaluation Mean Anyway?

Social Devaluation or ‘Stigma’ means reducing an individual’s ‘social value’ based on a specific attribute, whereby that attribute is deeply discredited by society. To be more precise, social devaluation is the root cause of prevalent social stigmas, which marginalizes individuals who share a discreditable attribute as per society’s biased beliefs.

Examples of a few social stigmas that stem from social devaluation are;

• Mental Illnesses, one of the most stigmatized conditions in Australia. However, Australia’s Disability Discrimination Act 1992 prohibits any discrimination or devaluation against those who have mental or intellectual disabilities and prevents employers from discriminating against such individuals
• Physical Disabilities, conditions like obesity, and learning disabilities.
• Sexual Orientation – homophobia/transphobia being one example.

Cost of Social Devaluation for Individuals with Disabilities

Devaluation of any group of individuals who share a common attribute (which is stigmatized by the mainstream society) comes with its fair share of costs. To have a better understanding of these costs, take a look at the below pointers;

Talent Costs

• Communication barriers: Communication barriers are experienced by individuals with disabilities that affect hearing, speaking, reading, writing, and understanding.
• Institutional barriers: These include laws, policies, practices, or strategies that either discriminate against people with disabilities or have been designed without keeping them in mind. For example; Public transport being inaccessible to people with disabilities. This poses a challenge in their everyday lives and reduces their ability to participate fully in community life.

We should also educate ourselves on being compassionate towards those who have physical or mental disabilities rather than viewing them through an outsider’s lens. That shall happen when fostering compassion and humility for one another as a society. There is much work to do if we want to value people with disabilities socially fully. Are you ready? Share and spread the word!

Individuals with physical disabilities and sound intelligence often have to face multiple barriers. These barriers include mainstream society’s default attitude, non-inclusive policies, environmental barriers (a building with no wheelchair ramp, for example), and institutional barriers (absence of disabled-employee policies that enable them to perform their work correctly and efficiently).

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