Features of the description of the social community of deaf people

The relevance of this study is due to the need for sociocultural analysis of the deaf people as a poorly understood social group in terms of sociology. There is the tendency to say the terms "persons with hearing impairment", "persons with hearing disabilities", "deaf-mute", "deaf", "hard of hearing", etc. in Russia. In this study, the concept of "deaf" will be used without regard to the actual level of hearing. Members of the deaf community feel discrimination by hearing people: a violation of linguistic rights, a violation of the right to work, the name "deaf and dumb is stupid, mentally retarded", which affects their lives in society as a whole. A huge number of myths, delusions in relation to this community leads to a deterioration in the socialization of deaf in the world of hearing people.