Disabilities

Question 1

The medical model

Answer 1

sees disability as a medical problem - focuses on limitations caused by impairment - leads to ‘victim blaming’ mentality where problem lies within disabled individual

Question 2

Shakespeare

Answer 2

argues that disabled people socialise seeing themselves as victim
‘Victim mentality’ - use as reason for failure
Obstacles for forming positive disable identity
Lack of role models in media
People react with pity to disable people
Points out disable people isolated from each other - forming collective identity difficult

Question 3

The social model

Answer 3

Focuses on social and physical barriers to inclusion e.g
Design of buildings
Public access
Discriminatory attitudes
Approach lead to view that disability is socially constructed - rests on assumptions of what is normal and abnormal

Question 4

Ridley

Answer 4

Does disability make you feel awkward?’
Charity conducted study whether people found being around disabled people made them awkward - survey found people didn’t know any disabled people

Question 5

Barnes

Answer 5

argues that media represents disabled people in negative oppressive waye.g
In need of pity and charity
As victims
As villains
As super cripples
As a burden
Sexually abnormal
Ordinary or normal

Question 6

Gill

Answer 6

Polio survivor became later disabled in life

Question 7

Murugami

Answer 7

Argues that disabled person has ability to construct self - identity accepting of their impairment
Sees themselves as a person first and sees disability as one of their characteristics
Also argues that few people completely able bodied throughout their lives - therefore society should view disability as a human condition

Question 8

Scrambler

Answer 8

perception of disability has harmful negative views of diabled people put them in risk of hate crime + judgement
Therefore having fair + accurate perception of disability + being accepting towards society

Question 9

Oliver