Sociology - Disability
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- Created on: 25-06-19 09:36
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- Disability
- Definitions
- Impairment - loss or limitation in functioning of mind or body
- Disability - impairment prevents people from daily activities
- Medical Model of Disability
- Saw people as disabled bc could not take part in same activities as society.
- Labelled as inferior, disabled abnormal and reliant
- Social Model of Disability
- OLIVER - society disables physically impaired bc excluded from full participation by stereotypical attitudes - social construction
- Social Construction of Disability
- SHAKESPEARE - social construction, society not take into account needs of societies perceived 'abnormal'
- No wheelchair access etc
- Shakespeare - the 'disabled' label more of a problem than actual disability, label leads people to not carry out activities
- Most UK impaired but rarely classed disabled, not seen as disabled bc society not define as a problem so not create barriers
- society sees some social aids negatively
- BARNES - disabled socialised into seeing themselves as disadvantaged so forced to play disabled role
- SHAKESPEARE - social construction, society not take into account needs of societies perceived 'abnormal'
- Stereotyping and Stigmatisation
- Media representation- most learn about disability through socialisation, popular views formed through media - negative
- BARNES - stereotypes include - dependent, unable to contribute society, non sexual, less than human, to be pitied or praised
- Symbolically annihilated in media - underrepresented and represent one dimensional ways
- Recent more positive - London Paralympic Games 2012
- Master Status and Stigmatised Identity
- Many people with impairments unable to assert their choice of identity (IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT) as other see them primarily as disabled and treat them according to stereotype
- Disability can become identity where people excluded from society, people will talk to person pushing wheelchair not person in it
- Result in employment discrimination as employers reluctant to take on disabled, so disabled more likely on welfare benefits and experience poverty
- Gender has impact - assumed professional disabled women should not have sex as make unsuitable mothers
- disabled women been forcibly sterilised or child in care
- Learned Helplessness
- Stereotypes of being dependent have an impact of the person
- SCOTT - observed interaction between medical professionals and disabled - blind develop blind personality which involves learned helplessness bc doctors expect them to rely on able bodied people even if don't need to
- Disability and Capitalism
- Marxist Finklestein - our negative attitudes bc capitalism emphasises work as source of identity, status and power. Bc capitalism requires healthy and fit workforce, disabled are economic burden and defined as social problem
- Disability and Resistance
- Studies suggest disabled people are likely to resist negative definitions of disability
- Reject medical labels and have positive self image
- Helped by increased prominence of disabled people in media
- Definitions
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