disability

• opposite is able- bodied
• sociologists believed that society is what disables you from something and not about you have a disability - the social model of disability
• shakespeare (1998): disability is created by society not by the person
• impairment: becomes a disability when it makes something impossible someone to do something. glasses is an impairment
• disability: people develop an identity of disability when their body does not conform to this stereotype even if their impairment does not stop them from stopping everyday activities
• the medical model: looking at 'fixing' the individual

  the social model: looking at fixing society and roads etc. tries to make peoples lives easier
• social model is concerned with the cultural, social and environmental factors which create disabilities for people with physical or mental impairments.
• people learn about disability from socialisation
• Barnes (1992): stereotyping disability

  1. they are dependent
  2. unable to contribute to society
  3. being non-sexual
  4. unable to express themselves
  5. less human
  6. wicked
  7. made fun of/pitied/praised for their disability
• master status; people who have a disabled identity, tend to be seen as not being able to have talent or skill without their disability being their identifier - they may not have much choice in the matter of this happening
• Goffman (1963): as a result of stereotypes, people may be excluded from participating in certain things in life, by assumption e.g. dating, wants and needs, constant needing of help... they could be treated as inferiors -> talking about them instead of talking to them