disability identities

Question 1

define disability

Answer 1

physical or mental impairment which impacts lifestyle and livelihood of an individual or those around them

Question 2

how does nature vs nurture argument apply to disability identities?

Answer 2

nature: a person may carry biologically inherited or developed characteristics of a disability
nurture: they are socialised into a disability identity where they are treated as a minority

Question 3

shakespeare’s medical model

Answer 3

disabled individuals cannot conform to social norms and values and begin to think that the individual is at fault and not society

Question 4

frances-white social model

Answer 4

society is the disabling factor due to the way it is designed only for able bodied individuals

Question 5

disability discrimination act 1995

Answer 5

gives those who were disabled legal protection and enforceable rights to stop ableism

Question 6

why is the term ‘disabled’ controversial?

Answer 6

it becomes a master status and overrules all other aspects of an individuals identity

Question 7

define learned helplessness

Answer 7

disabled people may internalise the idea that they are incapable of changing a situation and thus, fail to take action to help themselves

Question 8

Zola (1982) on learned helplessness

Answer 8

writes that the vocabulary we use to describe ourselves is borrowed from the discriminatory able-bodied society. We are de-formed, dis-eased, dis-abled, dis-orded, ab-normal, and the most telling of all in-valid’.

Question 9

murugami

Answer 9

argues that a disabled person has the ability to construct a self-identity that accepts their impairment but is independent of it., meaning that they see themselves first then their disability second.