SOCI 3810 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Brown Hair, Feminist Theory
11 Feb 2018
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Unintentional exclusion: what accommodations can we make for everyone that is universal instead we think about the norm (people with 20/20 vision, young, mobile) Point about context: what is normal and what is abnormal. The norm tends to be something that you can see. They specified how we usually say people have disabilities, but we should. When creating a city, you don"t necessarily think about blind individuals, (cid:498)critical disability theory(cid:499) The way you"re introduced, the way society sees you, the way you"re refer to them as people first before we refer to them as something else. Disability is an adjective like brunette or blonde. The cdt reading is about reconceptualising something. They say it in assumptions and stereotypes looked at their own words. The 2nd article, the author talks about her issues with dealing with disability through being self-conscious, scared etc.
