Oliver (1990) Person may have a physical impairment of some kind but it only becomes a disability when the society organizes social and economic features that translate the impairment to a disability
Personal tragedy - coming to terms with their disability
Finkelystein (1980) disability is a product of capitalist societies
Before industrialization/urbanization disabled was not a specific group with a shift to work in the factories there was no need for labour of disabled
Shakespeare (1994) disagrees with finkelstein. Prejudice against the disabled people is implicit in cultural representaton in language and in socialization
Bourdieu (1984) HABITUS - the internalized or embodied sense of being and place in society, constructed by powerful institutions. Denial of symbolic capita to disabled people turns into symbolic violence
Charmaz (1983) symbolic violence people who became disabled through an accident, chronic ill-health became concerned about loos of their previous self-image
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