Identity - disability

Question 1

What is a physical impairment ?

Answer 1

• can be congenital
• or acquired

Question 2

What is a learning disability ?

Answer 2

• a reduced intellectual ability
  -difficulty with everyday activities
• affects someone for their whole life
• autism, dyslexia and ADHD

Question 3

What is the discrimination act 1995 ?

Answer 3

• gives legal protection and rights to disabled people
• however a lot of discrimination remains

Question 4

What is eugenics ?

Answer 4

• to eliminate human, physical and mental defects all together
• to build a stronger society
• people with disabilities segregated
• done to ‘protect’ the human race

Question 5

What is an example of eugenics ?

Answer 5

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

Question 6

What is the medical model ?

Answer 6

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

Question 7

What is the social model ?

Answer 7

• 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

Question 8

What is a ‘master status’ ?

Answer 8

• interactionalists view
• most important status
• people interact with you in its basis

Question 9

What does Shakespeare’s study about disability say ?

Answer 9

• Disabled socialised into a victim mentality
• Due to medical model which focuses on the limitations of disability

Question 10

What did Zola say about disability ?

Answer 10

• 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

Question 10

What is learned helplessness ?

Answer 10

• 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

Question 11

What did Murugami say about disability ?

Answer 11

• 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