Outsiders in a Hearing World

EDITORS’ NOTE: Being deaf is a social role, as is membership in the community of the deaf. Higgins, through an analysis of experiences and interviews with deaf persons, shows that being deaf is a necessary but not sufficient condition for membership in the community of the deaf. One must further identify, participate, and share experience with others, and thus in a sense "earn" or achieve membership. In an important way, membership is based on trust, a facet both of the research problem and the community itself. In an important way, then, the role of the deaf as well as membership in the community must involve the doing of the role, i.e., manifesting it in socially sanctioned contexts, and negotiating its meaning with others.

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