SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: National Education Association, Ableism, Intellectual Disability
5 Jul 2016
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Week 11: representations of disability and of youth culture. It is defined as: a pervasive system of discrimination and exclusion of people with disabilities. Like racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression ableism operates on individual, institutional, and cultural levels to privilege temporarily able-bodied people and disadvantage people with disabilities. The systemic nature of this form of oppression is evidenced by patterns of treatment that discriminate against people with disabilities in such institutions as health care, education, housing, and employment. This phenomenon has been described by a variety of other terms, including handicapism, disability discrimination, physicalism, and mentalism. We prefer the term ableism to define the oppression of people with disabilities as a social justice issue. (335) Some stereotyps that distract the public from manifestations of ableism include inaccessible public buildings, inflexible height of tables and counters, unusable transportation systems, and segregated education.
