Disability

Question 1

Disability- Shakespere

Answer 1

-Disabled people are often socialised into seeing themselves as victims, they may accept this victim mentality and they use it as a reason for their failure
-Self fulfilling prophecy
-Lack of positive role models in society for disabled people to look up to
-Often isolated by society because of prejudice

Question 2

SCOPE

Answer 2

-85% of UK people believe that disabled people face prejudice
-1/3 think disabled people are not productive as everyone else

Question 3

Gill

Answer 3

-Learned helplessness
-Self fulfilling prophecy, they internalise that they are unable to change their situation, fatalistic

Question 4

Muragami

Answer 4

-He thinks disabled people are able to construct a self identity for themselves and accept their impairments but see themselves as a person first
-They should embrace their disability as a normal part of themselves

Question 5

Barnes

Answer 5

-Mass media representation of disability being negative and oppressive, rarely represented and when they are, they are represented as villains and super cripples