CHYS 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Michel Foucault, Chopsticks, Reading Disability
19 May 2013
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* brief overview of midterm assignment short answer questions. Disability can be understood as a social concept. Definitions and categorizations of disability reflect context and power. Definitions and categorizations of disability have social consequences in the lives of young people. Disability is reframed by some advocates as a source of strength and resistance. Determine what differences between people are important. Categorize certain ways of being as better or worse. Determine what to do with these differences. Do we accept them or do we fix them? others: definition contrasted with normality. How a particular version of things takes on the being standard, true, or normal. ". Normalization is the process of making things normal . But what is importantly normal is linked to context and culture. Eg reading people with reading disability; in an illiterate society the. Normal is determined by certain people of power in society. Eg acceptable dress in school; faculty had most conflict over hats.
