The Making of Blind Men

This book explores the idea that the attitudes and behavior characteristics of many who suffer impaired vision are socially acquired, not inherent in their physical condition. A part of this socialization occurs when the person who has vision trouble interacts with the seeing world in the encounters of everyday life. Another part of it occurs in organizations for the blind. This study is based on a major field research project sponsored by the New York Association for the Blind and the Russell Sage Foundation.

Robert A. Scott was professor of sociology at Princeton University.