Topic 4- Disability and identity

Question 1

Impairment

Answer 1

An abnormal functioning of the body, which only becomes a disability when it prevents people from carrying out normal day-to-day activities.

Question 2

Disability

Answer 2

a physical or mental impairment which prevents an individual from being able to carry out normal day-to-day tasks.

Question 3

Shakespeare:

Disability as a social construction

Answer 3

• created by societies that dont take into account needs of those who do not meet society idea of “normal”
• a stereotype of a normal body creates a disabled identity for those who dont have a ‘normal body’
• social attitudes turn an impairment into a disability as society discriminates against these individuals

Question 4

An example of how disability is socially constructed

Answer 4

An individual in a wheel chair may find it difficult to accessbuildings as theyre not designed in the right way