Disability Flashcards
What did the traditional definition of disability assume?
That it is a personal tragedy and the disabled deserve our pity
- they are dependent on able bodied
How were disabled people labelled by the medical model
As inferior and abnormal
The social model
Biological disability was less important than social disability
Oliver
It is a society which disables physically impaired people
It is a society which disables physically impaired people
Oliver
having extremely poor
Eyesight is not labelled as disabled because of glasses and contacts
How are people in wheelchairs handicapped
Because of societies failure to provide a social environment in which they can be as mobile as able bodied people
Marsh and keating
Very few of us are really independent - we rely on food and clothes - a network of people
Very few of us are independent
Marsh and Keating
What is the difference between??
Glasses and medication and wheelchairs and mobility aids
- why is there so much stigma surrounding this
Marxist sociologist on disability
Finkelstein
Finklestein
Attitudes toward disabled product of capitalism
- treated differently
- they require healthy and fit workforce to generate profits
Watson
Perception of disabled is based on ideas of helplessness
Sociologist about disabled being helpless
Watson
Study of the blind
Scott
