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The Interactional Accomplishment of "Impairment and Disability" in a Sport : From Game Analysis in Wheelchair Basketball Games
The social model of disability is very important in the way that “disability” is “the Social”. But this model is rarely used for the studies of the sports sociology. The social aspect is simply used as a factor to block personal sports participation. However, from a viewpoint of the Ethnomethodology, we can regard the severity of the impairments and the disability as the cooperative accomplishment in / by the interactions of people. The purpose of this study is to illustrate "the sociality of disability” from experiences in the sports practice. In this study, I classify games of wheelchair basketball, the top-level, middle-level, low-level and examined the play in each game.
The game analysis of sports paid attention to the result of a game and illustrated each play related to the result of the game for an index. However, the game analysis does not consider that the performance of the game "achieved" something.
In the wheelchair basketball, it is empirically-known that a competition power of the team is closely concerned with the skill of the low-point player (a player with severe impairments). In the team having high competition power, the implication of a player with severe impairments may be different from a low team. In the logic of the wheelchair basketball rules, "impairments" is indispensable. The game performance shows it. While, "impairments” is experienced as difficulty in the game when the low-point player does not function effectively by the team. The negative side of "impairments" is achievement and maintained as a result of play interactions. "impairments and disability" are accomplished as a play interactions in a game.