blindness
type: Concept
broader: visual impairments
broader: localized diseases
definition: Blindness and low vision are one broad type of physical difference that sociologists of deviance and disability have written about extensively since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA; 1990). The term blindness is sometimes used as a general term for conditions more properly termed vision disabilities. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Deviance; Blindness]

concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: blindness

localized diseases
type: Concept
narrower: blindness

visual impairments
type: Concept
narrower: blindness