Wizerunek osób z niepełnosprawnościami: stan postulowany a rzeczywisty obraz w mediach odtworzony na przykładzie tygodników opiniotwórczych

The Image of People with Disabilities: the Postulated State and the Real Image in the Media Recreated on the Example of Opinion-Forming Weeklies The main objective of this article is to reconstruct and compare images of different types of people with disabilities. One of them is an image postulated in the public discourse of symbolic elites. The second is a real image, i.e. one that is really presented in the media space. As a result of qualitative research involving the analysis of the texts of articles published during the period of one year (years 2017/2018) of three opinionforming weekly, has been explored and recreated the real image of people with disabilities. Comparing the two images have shown that there is a discrepancy between the postulates and the real state, which is based on the image of a stigma, exclusion and impoverishment, aid dependency, lower social position.