SOCI 100B Chapter 3: 20-SOCI-100B- University of Victoria
26 Aug 2018
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Normal people often don"t see the complexity of disability and ignore that impairment is a common human experience and that we are all differently abled. Many sociologists see disability as a social construct. The social model of disability is based on three assumptions: disability is a form of social inequality and stabled people are a minority who are discriminated against and excluded from mainstream society. Impairment and disability are not the same thing ex. it is not necessarily the impairment that disables but societal practices of disablement" that create disability; and, It is society"s responsibility to remove obstacles that persons with disabilities face. An emerging criticism of this approach highlights that in this context and basis for exclusion and not an opportunity for resistance and empowerment. The cultural model of disability looks beyond the simple binary of abled/disabled and questions how practices of (de-) normalization promote the category of disability". The terms /concepts are fluid, situational and informed by experience.
