Prelims -- Invisibility, visibility, vilification, and near silence: the framing of disability in the early years of the American sociological society -- How erving goffman affected perceptions of disability within sociology -- Managing the emotions of reading goffman: erving goffman and spencer cahill looking at disability -- Conceptual issues in disability: saad nagis contribution to the disability knowledge base -- Back to the future: Irving K. Zolas contributions to the sociology of disability -- Bringing our bodies and ourselves back in: seeing Irving Kenneth Zolas legacy -- A messy trajectory: from medical sociology to crip theory -- The sociology of deafness: a literature review of the disciplinary history -- Renaming the wheel: social model constructs in older sociological literature -- The sibling disability experience: an analysis of studies concerning non-impaired siblings of individuals with disabilities from 1960 to 1990 -- Struggles and joys: a review of research on the social experience of parenting disabled children -- About the authors.