LABR 2Q92 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Toronto Subway, Visual Impairment, Ocular Albinism
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Lots of areas to explore in regards to people with disabilities. Difficulties that individuals face when attempting to enter the labour market. Having children at a later date in life which can lead to birth defects. Issues make it a concern about how to engage those with disabilities. Many don"t like the term disabled because of the connotation with dis. ". The embodied self: body as a symbol of the self. "face" to the world: a visually orientated culture. Images and symbols are really important (such as profile photo). Photos can be manipulated to make you look a certain way. Body consciousness: the ability to reside comfortably in one"s body and to consider one"s. A medium of culture based on what we eat, how we dress, and the daily rituals to body as connected to oneself. which we attended. Rules, hierarchies and metaphysical are enforced and created metaphor of culture.