Representation of Disability
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- Created on: 26-03-18 12:31
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- Media Representation of Disability
- Shakespeare
- Media of disabled people relied on old stereotypes of twisted villains, plucky heroes, and weak victims.
- Media encourages able-bodied people to view people with disabilities as 'other'.
- Pluralists
- Dominant view that disability is dysfunctional for society
- Mirrors social anxieties about impairment
- Reflects courage
- Social Constructionism
- Disabled by society
- Representations show everything a 'normal' person would dread
- Rarely consulted by journalists
- Low status + exclusion
- Post-modernism
- Medical viewpoint is in decline and our understanding of health is changing
- More positive representations
- Cannot make generalisations
- Shakespeare
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