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disability and identity
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- 1who would find disability the most significant aspect of their identitythose living with a physical / mental impairment
- 2the profile of those with disabilities has arguably improved significantly in recent years - with what events such as the Paralympics doing what ???raising awareness of positive achievements and images in relation to disabled people
- 3what was passed in 1995 giving legal protecting and enforceable rights to disabled peoplethe Disability Discrimination Act
- 4despite such positive developments a lot of what still remains ???a lot of discrimination and social / physical barriers to full inclusion
- 5THE MEDICAL MODEL: this sees disability as a medical problem focusing on what ?the limitations caused by impairment
- 6THE MEDICAL MODEL: this has long been the prevalent approach taken by society - this approach leads to the defining of a disabled person by what ?their disability or impairment
- 7THE MEDICAL MODEL: what is the problem with defining disabled people by their disability ??'victim-blaming' mentality
- 8THE MEDICAL MODEL: where does the problem lie with this 'victim-blaming' mentalitywhere the problem lies with the disabled individual rather than with a society that has not met their needs
- 9THE MEDICAL MODEL: SHAKESPEAR (1996): argues that disabled people are often socialised into this way of seeing themselves as ??victims
- 10THE MEDICAL MODEL: SHAKESPEAR (1996): the person with impairment may have an investment in their own incapacity because it can become the rationale for their own failure thus creating what ??'victim-mentality'
- 11THE SOCIAL MODEL: focuses on the social and physical barriers to inclusion that may exist - such as what ??the design of buildings / public spaces that deny access to those with mobility problems
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discriminatory attitudes / practices agaunst those with disabilities - 12THE SOCIAL MODEL: can be argued society is therefore the ??disabling factor
- 13THE SOCIAL MODEL: this approach can lead to the view that disability is socially constructed - since it rests on what ?assumptions of what is 'normal' or 'abnormal'
- 14THE SOCIAL MODEL: SHAKESPEAR (1996): argues that there are major obstacles to forming a positive disabled identity - disabled people are often socialised to see themselves as ???inferior
- 15THE SOCIAL MODEL: SHAKESPEAR (1996): he also points out that disabled people are often isolated from one another so forming a strong collective identity is difficult - there is also a lack of what ?positive role models in public life and the media
- 16THE SOCIAL MODEL: SHAKESPEAR (1996): Disability or impairment in a largely able-bodied society often leads to reactions of what ?pity, avoidance and awkwardness
- 17the disability charity Scope UK conducted a study that found that 2/3 of people felt what when talking to a disabled person???awkward
- 18This Scope survey also suggested that 43% of people ????dont know anyone who is disabled
- 19the label 'disabled' carries with it a ??'stigma'
- 20what is a stigmaa negative label
- 21this stigma that afects all interactions between the disabled people and others creating what interactionists would call a ... ??master status
- 22this means that it transcends all other aspects of identity and becomes the defining characteristic by which the individual is judged - a key issue for many disabled ppl is their disablitiy becomes what ??the defining aspect of their identity for others - who only see them in relation to their disability - not as men or women or gay or straight
- 23GILL (1997) : a polio survivor who became disabled later in life, recounciling your identity as a disabled person with previously held notions about what being disabled means is a common hurdle - what does she say ??'when you become a member of the group that you have previously felt fear or pity for you u cant help but turn those feelings on yourself'
- 24ZOLA (1982): a sociologist also disabled by polio writes that 'the very vocabulary we use to describe ourselves is borrowed from who ??a discriminatory able bodied society
- 25ZOLA (1982): are de-formed, dis-eased, si-abled, ab-normal and most of all called what ?invalid
- 26this could lead to a form of 'learned helplessness' - a concept that describes what ??describing the way that some disabled people may internalise the idea that they are incapable of changing a situation and thus fail to take action to help themselves
- 27it has been argued that policies such as segregated schooling actually encouraged learned helplessness even if the intentions were what ?well-meaning
- 28MURUGAMI (2009): argues that a disabled person has the ability to construct a self-identity that ???accepts their impairment but is independent of it
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