SOC243H1 Chapter 2,8: Textbook Notes (Week 9 - 11).pdf
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Chapter 8: the experience of disability, chronic pain, and chronic illness. Disability (as defined by who): a restriction or inability to perform an activity in the manner or. Intellectual, or sensory limitations; social responses to these limitations, and the built or social environment. Individualizing disabilities implies that the problem is with the disabled person and that it is their job to fit in with society. If we accept that the problem is within society, then we can restructure our social and built environment in order to accommodate those with disabilities rather than rehabilitating the impaired to live normally . There are parallels between the disabled and minority groups. Minority group: any group that, because of its cultural or physical characteristics, is considered. Disabled people are often subjected to prejudice and discrimination inferior and subjected to differential and unequal treatment and that therefore develops a sense of itself as the object of collective discrimination.
