IDENTITY: DISABILITY Flashcards
What act was passed in 1995?
The Disability Discrimination Act, giving legal protection and enforceable rights to disabled people.
What is the medical model?
Sees disability as a medical problem, focusing on the limitations caused by the impairment.
Shakespeare.
That disabled people are often socialised into this way of seeing themselves as victims.
What does the social model focus on?
The physical and social barriers to inclusion that may exist such as the design of buildings and public spaces.
What does the ‘disabled’ label often carry with it?
A stigma that affects all interactions between the disabled person and others, creating what interactionists would call a ‘master status’.
Zola.
The vocabulary used to describe disabled people is borrowed from discriminatory able-bodied society.
What could Zola’s idea lead to?
A form of ‘learned helplessness’.
Murugami.
That a disabled person has the ability to construct a self-identity that accepts their impairment.
Gill.
People carry a negative label for the disabled,
so to become disabled you would then “turn those
feelings on yourself”
