SOC100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Deaf Culture, Hearing Aid, Cultural Universal

• School: UTSG
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H1
• Professor: lorne

Document Summary

Medical model versus is competing with social services model. People who are culturally deaf believe the chs should help them live barrier-free in a world where audism and ableism are rampant. Eg. providing sign-language-interpretation services, and ensuring the survival of the culture and languages of the deaf. They object to the idea that people who are deaf should be fixed with technology such as cochlear implants. The chs should embrace a social-services model, not a medical model of disability. Treat deafness is a culture/lifestyle not a disability . Culture is a filter through which we view and understand the world. Generally, people learn a culture through . When people behave in odd ways it is usually because they are members of a different culture. Non-rational - there are no absolutely right and. Culture includes the values and norms that influence the behaviour of people who live in a particular society. Some totemic objects are real without being actual .