Disability and Identity
Definition, Studies, Approaches
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- Created on: 20-04-14 21:42
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- Disability and Identity
- Definition
- Medical: Fixed thing relating to a recognised medical condition
- Social: Medical condition is acted by person.Can either take up new skills or result in a self fulfilling prophecy of learned helplessness
- Theoretical Approaches:
- Interactionist: Goffman - Stigmatised Identity Kim - Saw some resistance
- Marxist: Finkelstein: Identity heavily dependent on work so may be why disabled perceived negitavley
- Post Modernists: There are a wide range of disabilities so a divide between disabled and abled is mistaken
- Feminist: Affected by ideas women are physically weak so they're diagnosed quicker with anxiety etc
- Studies
- Best: assume disabled are dependent and unable to function without help - criticised for representing them as inferior
- Cumberbatch Disability represented as negative, evil or monsters, never as courageous - research found this has little effect on peoples identity (Kim)
- Finkelstein: Work is source of identity and power, insted you become an economic burden - Shakespeare says that ideology dates pre capitalism
- Question
- Examine the factors affecting the identity of people with disabilities
- Definition
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