The aim of this article is pointed out the relevance of the Social Psychology to understand the disability as an analytical category in researches and psycho-social practices. For a defence of this question, it is important to examine the indicatives of disability in Brazil, in the world and how the disability is articulated to analytical categories as gender, race, generation and social classes. These aspects are already considerate in studies and psycho-social analyses. ollowing this process, it will be explain the social model of disability, in special a transversal understanding of disability, interconnected to further categories. In conclusion, it will be expose the relevance of the Social Psychology committed to human rights and to the social transformation, and the importance of employing studies of disability as theory, considering disability as an analytical category, and highlighting its relevance for the public policies.
social model of disability; social psychology; human rights