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6. In what ways do majority groups according to Clements and Spinks control and power minorities?

  • Exaggerate difference, attach labels, impose values, hold power, stereotype, impose traditions, define what’s normal and make rules
  • Marginalise minorities
  • Discriminate against individuals considered different thus gaining power and control
  • Impose values and traditions

7. Eugenics is?

  • A specific type of disability
  • A form of discrimination against those with a disability
  • The idea of improving the genetic makeup of the human species- through often controversial methods
  • A car manufacturing company

8. Which poet is famous for the following ‘and if I laugh at any mortal thing, tis that I may not weep’?

  • Thompson
  • Rudyard Kipling
  • Lord Byron
  • Katie Price

9. The perspective that disability is not just a medical issue but a political issue and human rights issue, and that the issue is disabling barriers is argued by which movement?

  • The Disability Movement
  • The Human rights movement
  • The Union of Physically impaired movement
  • The people with impairment movement

10. In what year did Kathrine Switzer run the Boston Marathon supported by her coach Arnie Briggs?

  • 1950
  • 1967
  • 1960
  • 1963

11. The social model proposes that?

  • Disability is an individual issue which society shouldn’t have to deal with
  • Disability has little to do with the social environment
  • Due to the way people with impairments are viewed people with disabilities are often frequently discriminated against
  • Due to the way people with impairments are viewed many allowances are made to benefit them in comparison to the average person

12. In which year introduced the NHS?

  • 1948
  • 1938
  • 1958
  • 1942

13. The following quote from Clements and Spinks (2009:121) ‘we would go as far as to say it is the way that the able bodied majority arranges the built environment which disables people’ refers to what?

  • The disabling environment
  • Injustice
  • Prejudice
  • Discrimination

14. What do Beckett and Taylor 2010 discuss can hold people with disabilities back?

  • Being treated as if they were infants
  • Isolation
  • Discrimination and marginalisation
  • Prejudice

15. Which model of disability proposes that disability is something to be avoided at all costs?

  • Individual model
  • Social model
  • Psychological model
  • Disability model

16. Which Conservative MP proposed that disabled people should be able to offer themselves to prospective employers at a lower rate of pay to improve employability?

  • Den Dover
  • David Cameron
  • Philip Davies
  • Tim Collins

17. Who states that a child is disabled if ‘he is blind, deaf or dumb, or suffers from a mental disorder of any kind, or is substantially or permanently handicapped by illness injury or congenital deformity, or any such disability as may be described

  • The Equality Act 2010
  • SENDA 2001
  • Children’s Act 1989
  • Union of Physically impaired against segregation

18. In what year did the Labour government create the welfare state?

  • 1945
  • 1950
  • 1940
  • 1930

19. Who states the following ‘someone who, on account of injury, disease or congenital deformity, is subsequently handicapped in obtaining or keeping employment, or in undertaking work… of a kind which would, apart from that injury, disease or deform

  • Disabled Person’s Employment Act 1944
  • The Equality Act 2010
  • SENDA 2001
  • Children’s Act 1989

20. 17) The World Health organisation’s definition of disability was rewritten by who in 1976?

  • The union of the physically impaired against segregation
  • Disabled Persons Employment act (amendments)
  • The WHO
  • Equality Legislation