Disability Flashcards
Define disability
A physical or mental condition that limits a Persians movement, senses or activities.
What is the medical model of disability?
It sees disability as a medical problem and defines the disabled person by their identity which leads to victim blaming.
What is the social model of disability?
It focuses on the social and physical barriers, it believes that disability is caused because of the way society is organised, rather than a persons impairment.
What does Shakespeare mean by victim mentality?
The person with impairment may have an investment into own capability.
What is the major obstacle to form a positive disabled identity?
That disabled people are socialised to see themselves as inferior as they are also often isolated from one another.
What is a stigma?
A negative label.
What is disablism?
Discrimination against disabled people.
What does Goffman say about the master status?
It goes beyond all other identities as it becomes the defining characteristic by which the individual is judged.
What does Gill say about self pity 1997?
Self-pity is when you become a member of the group you feared and you cannot help but turn those feelings on yourself.
Define learned helplessness
Describing the way some people believe the idea that they are incapable of changing a situation.
What does Zola 1980 to say about discriminatory language?
She says that vocabulary we use to describe ourselves is borrowed from society which could lead to a form of learned helplessness.
What does Murugami 2009 say about a person first?
He argues that a disabled person has the ability to construct a self identity.
Media and disability:
What eight media representations of disabled people?
- In need of pity and charity
- As victims
- As villains
- As super cripples
- As a burden
- As sexually abnormal
- As incapable
- As normal/ ordinary
Media and disability:
Who found the eight media representations and in what year?
Barnes, 1992
