القيم المغربية وآليات تدبير حاجيات الأشخاص في وضعية إعاقة دراسة سوسيولوجية في أنماط التضامن والرعاية الاجتماعية

Abstract

This study addresses a sociological question concerning the role of the Moroccan value system in shaping the ways in which people with disabilities are perceived, supported, and cared for, as well as in mediating the satisfaction of their diverse needs within family and community settings. It proceeds from the assumption that the Moroccan family continues to draw, to a significant extent, on a cultural and normative repertoire grounded in the principles of solidarity, mutual support, and social reciprocity. These values operate as informal mechanisms of social protection for people with disabilities, contributing to their social acceptance and facilitating their inclusion within the wider community. Methodologically, the study adopts a qualitative approach aimed at understanding the social meanings and underlying rationales that inform family practices and interactions surrounding disability. It draws on the instrumental case study method as a methodological framework for gaining access to lived experiences and for examining the cultural, symbolic, and value-based dimensions that shape them. This approach makes it possible to move beyond an exclusively individual or medical understanding of disability and to situate the experience within the broader social and cultural context in which it is constructed and negotiated.

The findings suggest that disability should not be understood merely as an individual bodily condition with medical or psychological dimensions. Rather, it may be approached as a socially constructed phenomenon, shaped through the interplay of cultural representations, prevailing value systems, and patterns of social interaction. From this perspective, the family experience provides a particularly relevant analytical lens through which to examine the dynamics of social solidarity, the processes of meaning-making, and the forms of social inclusion that emerge in Moroccan society in its engagement with people with disabilities.