living with chronic impairment Flashcards
3 key points about body image from a sociological perspective
-body image is formed in a social and cultural context
-how the body is portrayed in the media can reinforce or query social norms and cultural ideals
-institutions like NHS can highlight and challenge problematic norms and ideals
what does parsons sick role 1951 define illness as
illness as a temporary state of social deviance
what was thomas’ argument against the sick role in 2010
the sick role has influenced sociology to think of illness in terms of social deviance from a norm of health - mirroring someones focus on curing pathology
what is disability theorists’ opinion about how disability should be viewed
seen in terms of social oppression
describe charmaz 1983 - loss of self in relation to chronic illness
suffering is the loss of self in chronically ill persons who cannot be the same as they were before
describe Bury 1982 - biographical disruption in 1 sentence
recognising the world’s pain/suffering/ death - which are normally only seen as distant possibilities in others
describe williams 1984 - narrative reconstruction in 1 sentence
adapting to impairment involves processing biographical disruption and building new life narratives
difference between medical and social model of disability
medical model - locates disability in the impairment
social model - locates the disability in society
what is the aim of social model of disability
reframe disability as a form of social oppression
3 critiques of social model of disability
- doesn’t allow the idea that individuals can be both disabled by society and their bodies
- doesn’t consider pain/frailty
- doesn’t take the biopsychosocial model into account
does the ‘international classification of functioning (ICF) model - WHO 2001’ describe disability n functioning as uni or mulitdimensional
multidimensional
