New Age And Disabled Identities

Question 1

What do postmodernists believe about changing age identities?

Answer 1

• look at trends such as living and working for longer, anti aging products and procedures and extension of youth and childhood
• show how age is fluid and becoming less significant

Question 2

What do featherstone and Hepworth argue?

Answer 2

• life course has begun to be deconstructed
• claim 2 processes have taken place; de differentiation and deinstitutionalisation

Question 3

Define de differentiation

Answer 3

Process by which the differences between different stages of the life course become less clear

Question 4

Define deinstitutionalisation

Answer 4

Process by which the institutions of society become less closely associated with maintaining different phases of the life course

Question 5

What is the mask of aging?

Answer 5

Constant messages from the media to stay young and delay the process of aging

Question 6

What does Andrew blaikie argue?

Answer 6

• attitudes to retirement have changed and stereotypes of old age have broke down
• claims this is partly due to consumer culture
• grey £ valued

Question 7

Define disability

Answer 7

Physical or mental impairment which has substantial and long term effect on a person’s ability to carry out normal day to day activities

Question 8

Define impairment

Answer 8

Physical or mental abnormality/condition

Question 9

What is the disability discrimination act 2005?

Answer 9

• aimed to end discrimination against people with disabilities by preventing discriminatory practice in areas such as workplace, education, transport and buying or renting properties

Question 10

What is the medical model?

Answer 10

• sees disability as a medical problem
• so focuses on the limitations caused by the impairment
• leads to victim blaming mentality
• leads to defining a person by their disability

Question 11

What does Shakespeare argue?

Answer 11

• disabled people are often socialised into seeing themselves as victims
• people with impairments may accept victim mentality to use as reason for their failure

Question 12

What are the obstacles to forming a positive disabled identity?

Answer 12

• lack of positive role models
• disabled people are often isolated from each other
• able bodied society often react with pity, avoidance and awkwardness

Question 13

What is social models?

Answer 13

• focuses on social and physical barriers to inclusion that may exist
• such as design of buildings and public spaces that deny access to those with mobility problems or discriminatory attitudes and practices against those with disabilities
• lead to view that disability is socially constructed as it rests on assumptions of what is normal and abnormal

Question 14

What does Lee ridley argue?

Answer 14

• campaign ‘does disability make you feel awkward?’
• 2/3 of people felt awkward
• 43% of people don’t know anyone who’s disabled which is statistically unlikely
• less than 1/5 of people have disabilities from birth
• other 4/5 not yet disabled

Question 15

What is one way the media may create and reinforce a disabled identity?

Answer 15

Through portraying disabled people in a stereotyped way

Question 16

What does Barnes argue?

Answer 16

• in mass media representations of disability have generally been oppressive and negative
• notes that disabled people are represented as: in need of pity and charity, victims, villains, super cripples, burden, sexually abnormal, ordinary or normal

Question 17

What is master status?

Answer 17

Referred to by interactionists as the label ‘disabled’ carries stigma which affects all interactions between the disabled person and others

Question 18

What does Gill argue?

Answer 18

• ‘when you become a member of the group you have previously felt fear or pity for, you can’t help but turn those feelings on yourself’
• lead to form of learned helplessness
• policies such as segregated schooling encourage learned helplessness

Question 19

What does murugami argue?

Answer 19

• disabled person has the ability to construct a self identity that accepts their impairment but is independent of it
• very few people are completely able bodied throughout their whole life and therefore society should view disability as a human condition rather than an Impairment that sets certain people apart from society as a whole