DISABILITY IDENTITY
- Created by: ElishaHolt12
- Created on: 10-04-19 19:22
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- IDENTITY
- SOCIAL CLASS
- DISABILITY
- identity= shaped by disability (master status)
- MURUGAMI: disabled have ability to construct own identity that accepts their impairment, but is dependent of it= see themselves as a person first and view their disability as one of their characteristics
- MEDICAL MODEL
- VIEW= disability is a medical problem
- focuses on limitations (caused by impairment)
- 'victim-blaming' mentality= problem lies with the disabled individual
- SHAKESPEARE: disabled often socialised into viewing themselves as victims= creating a victim mentality// "can be the rationale of their own failure"
- SOCIAL MODEL
- FOCUS= social + physical barriers that exist in society (blames society's attitudes): eg. building designs
- society= the disabling factor/society is socially constructed- created what's normal + abnormal
- CAMPAIGNERS: prefer term 'differently abled'
- CAROL GILL: Polio Surviver who became disabled (wasn't born with it)// "when you become a member of the group you previously felt pity for, you can't help but turn those feelings on yourself"
- ZOLA: also disabled through polio/ says the vocabulary that disabled people use to describe themselves is borrowed from 'discriminatory able-bodied society'// 'deformed', 'diseased'// could lead to 'learned helplessness'
- 'learned helplessness'= a cause of depression= don't believe you can be successful: not helping yourself at all
- FOCUS= social + physical barriers that exist in society (blames society's attitudes): eg. building designs
- identity= shaped by disability (master status)
- GENDER
- ETHNICITY
- SEXUALITY
- AGE
- NATIONALITY
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