Disability and identity

• Functionalist view on disability (Parsons)+eval

  • sick role->> unhelpful/ can't perform function + dependency
  • eval: (Shakespeare)->> at some point we will all be dependent on someone else or the state= why does this not apply to disabled people?
• Marxist view on disability (Marx)+eval

  • disabled people= oppressed by capitalists->> unemployed or in w/c= live in poverty
  • eval: benefit system
  • SE->> benefits being cut in 2025 govt. spending review
• Feminist view on disability + eval

  • heavily marginalised->> unemployed or more likely to take on part-time than men
  • lower status
  • eval: (agr)still have triple burden
• PM view on disability +eval

  • individualism, defined by consumption= not defined by disability
  • eval: meta-narratives still exist->> lack of accessibility for DA
• Interactionalist (Becker/Goffman/ Cooley) view on disability +eval

  • labelling, stigmatised identity, looking-glass self
  • eval: more rep in media
• Work + impact on disability and identity

  • social closure= harder for DA to be employed
  • eval: ^remote working
  • ->>SE: excuses lack of accessibility and needs to be improved in person as well
• Politics + impact on disability and identity

  Bradley->> politicised identity and using identiity to bring social change

  eval: still difficult to be in lime-light + may be demonised by the media
• Education+ impact on disability and identity

  labelling (SEN), stigmas, marginalisation, socail closure

  eval: better education of teachers and more funding towards this
• Family/ peers + impact on disability and identity

  learnt helplessness

  eval: well intended + depending on disability it creates a sense of safety rather than helplessness
• Media+ impact on disability and identity

  symbolic annihilation

  eval: more rep

  SE->> trying not to be tokenistic could result in 'blindness' casting and strays from rep eg. Snow White 2025
• Marsh and Keating (disability)

  • everyone has moments in their lives where they are dependent on someone else
  • eval: disability is not dependency, less stigma towards m/c when they are dependent than w/c
• Parsons (disability)

  sick role

  eval: Shakespeare, ignores indivulaistic experience of DA and what type of disability
• Barnes (disability)

  considers stereotypes that DA are subjected to

  eg. sexually abnormal, Curio, incapable of participating fully in community life

  eval: varying rep in the media

  SE->> still a vast majority fall into this category and create symbolic annihilation of other DA identities
• Goffman (disability)

  stigma around physical/ visible disabilities

  eval: stigma can still exist around unseen disabilities