Identity - disability Flashcards

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What is a physical impairment ?

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  • can be congenital
  • or acquired
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What is a learning disability ?

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  • a reduced intellectual ability
    -difficulty with everyday activities
  • affects someone for their whole life
  • autism, dyslexia and ADHD
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What is the discrimination act 1995 ?

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  • gives legal protection and rights to disabled people
  • however a lot of discrimination remains
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What is eugenics ?

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  • to eliminate human, physical and mental defects all together
  • to build a stronger society
  • people with disabilities segregated
  • done to ‘protect’ the human race
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What is an example of eugenics ?

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In 1939, during WW2 Hitler ordered a wide spread ‘mercy killing’ of the sick or disabled

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What is the medical model ?

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  • focuses on physical limitation
  • seen as a medical problem
  • disabled person is seen as the problem rather than society
  • tick, tourettes syndrome
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What is the social model ?

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  • Social and physical barriers of exclusion
  • argues that the values and structures held by society make someone disabled
  • E.G. requirements of a job, attitudes of colleagues
  • looks at issues such as disabled people being un able to get into the building
  • Think disability is socially constructed
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What is a ‘master status’ ?

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  • interactionalists view
  • most important status
  • people interact with you in its basis
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What does Shakespeare’s study about disability say ?

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  • Disabled socialised into a victim mentality
  • Due to medical model which focuses on the limitations of disability
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What did Zola say about disability ?

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  • Says the language of ability is very important
  • said they preferred to be called differently able rather than disabled
  • Society describes disabled people with discriminatory language
  • Saying disabled can lead to learned helplessness and fail to help themselves
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What is learned helplessness ?

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  • disabled people internalise the idea that they are incapable of changing their situation
  • low self-esteem and highly structured life where decision are made for them
  • argued for separate schooling encouraged this
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What did Murugami say about disability ?

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  • disabled people construct a self-identity but are dependent from their disability and look at what they are able to do
  • seen as a person first and the disability is one of their many characteristics
  • newer study
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