DIsability Flashcards
disability
a physical or mental condition that limits a person movement or sense
medical model
they see disability as a medical, biological problem
social model
disability as a society problem, i.e. discrimination,
Zola discriminatory language 1982
vocabulary we use to describe ourselves is borrowed from discriminatory wider society
learned helplessness
people feel powerless to improve their situation in life
muragami a person first
they see them as a person first and they see disability as a one of their characteristic
Barnes (1992) 8 media representations
in need of pity and charity victim supper cripples burden sexually abnormal unproductive rarely being called ordinary
workplace & disability
50% less likely to be employed,, poverty (being unemployed)
disability changing
campaign called end the awkward- break the awkwardness people feel about disability
disability changing evidence 2
Paralympic ONS attitudes toward disabled people have imptoved since watching it