SOCI 3810 Lecture 7: Reflection 4 - Jan 11

• School: York University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 3810
• Professor: Carmela Murdocca

Document Summary

Reading: framing disability: comparing individualistic and collectivist societies by. Dr. heinz-dieter meyer is an associate professor of education governance, organization, and policy and suny albany. He is interested in comparative studies of higher education and the emerging regime of global education governance. Meyer has published four books and over 50 articles in international journals of organization and education. Meyer uses international differences in disability rates as a window to address the (cid:395)uestio(cid:374) ho(cid:449) (cid:374)atio(cid:374)al cultu(cid:396)e i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)ces a (cid:374)atio(cid:374)"s u(cid:374)de(cid:396)sta(cid:374)di(cid:374)g a(cid:374)d p(cid:396)actice of disability. He also talks about the distinction between individualistic and collectivistic cultures to explore the relationship between culture and disability. In the beginning part of this article, meyer talks about the cross-cultural, comparative perspective to shed light on the cultural construction of disability. His main ideas revolve around i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idualistic a(cid:374)d collecti(cid:448)istic cultu(cid:396)es. Throughout the article, meyer focuses on many countries around the world to study their culture and global perspective on disability.