SOC 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Ableism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 300
• Professor: Kelly Train

Document Summary

Charity and social welfare policies, both well intended, but neither satisfy the needs of people with disabilities experience, in fact they worsen the problems people with disabilities face. The disabled are denied formal and inferential citizenship, dis-citizens. Critical disability theory, a new understanding of citizens is needed to be able to include the disabled. The goal of critical dis-theory is to challenge assumptions in order to allow the disabled to participate equally/fully in society. How are we going to be called, and what terms we going to use (languages) Within disabilities movements, the terms like handicapped" and disabled persons" were bad. These terms imply people are disabled in every way, the government started calling them persons with disabilities". Persons with disabilities" was not correct because its apolitical and individualized disabilities. Necessary to challenge the status and what it means to depoliticize identity. The concept of identity is essential to liberalism, rights are a individual thing,