disability and identity

Question 1

legilsation

Answer 1

1995 - disability discrimination act agve legal protection and enforeable rights

Question 2

the medical model

Answer 2

sees disabilities as a medical problem and focuses on the limitations cause by impairment
defines a disabled person by their disability
leads to victim blaming mentality where they see themselves as the problem

Question 3

the medical model - shakespeare

Answer 3

disbaled people are socialised into seeing themselves as victims to the impairment

Question 4

the social model

Answer 4

focuses on social and physical barriers to inclusion that exist
society is the disabling factor rather than the individual
disabilities are socially constructed as they rest on the assumptions of what is normal and abnormal

Question 5

the disability charity scope

Answer 5

2/3 of people foudn it awkward talkign to a disabled person
43% claim they dont know a disabled person

Question 6

stigma

Answer 6

negative label - affects interactions betwen the diabled people and others leading to a master status

Question 7

zola - disabled sociologist

Answer 7

the vocab we use to describe ourselves is borrowed from discriminatory able bodies

Question 8

learned helplessness

Answer 8

disbaled people may internalise the idea that they are incacpable of changing a situation and brings low self esteem