Disability And Identity

Question 1

Disabled persons indentity

Answer 1

Shaped by their physical or mental impairments and consequently can’t live a normal life

Question 2

Disabilism example

Answer 2

Employers are reluctant to employ disabled people so they are more likely to be unemployed

Lowers life chances

Cannot have a better standard of living so affects their identity because they cannot identify themselves with consumer culture

Question 3

Stereotypes

Answer 3

Stereotypes built by society - seen as object of pity or sympathy and not treated as a normal person

Affects identity bcuz not treated the same as others , stared at

Question 4

Medias role

Answer 4

Media re inforces the stereotypes built by society as mass media representations of disabled people tend to be negative and based on charities

Question 5

Social construction

Answer 5

Disabled sociologists are critical of medias view of disabled people and believe their identity is socially constructed by stereotypes

Gofffman blind study : supports this and came up with self fulfilling prophecy that disabled people beleive and internalise in negative labels and become dependent

Shakespeare : disabled people socialised into seeing themselves as inferior creating and shaping their identities as becoming a victim

Question 6

Contradiction to it influencing

Answer 6

Disabled people are seen living normal lives as many have jobs working from home

Increased number of schools for disabled people allows them to learn like us