KRLS 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Adolphe Quetelet, Social Stigma, Standard Deviation
23 Oct 2018
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Learned predisposition to approach or avoid: favorably or unfavorably thought. About self, others, issues or objects ( + or - ): affect how we treat people, willingness to change, our policies. Hierarchy of preference factors contribute to our comfort level towards disability. Attitudes of athletes with impairments toward certain types of impairments vary: The social construction of disability in a society of normalization: To understand disability in relation to socially established standards for socially created tasks . The emergence of a notion of normalcy is what, then, creates the problem of the disabled person . The idea of what we hold is normal is abnormal. Normal creates disability: how the notion of normal came about . Applied law of error method (= the average aka normal) that astronomers used to locate a star, to human and social phenomena: Standard deviation = how many people fall into the specific category which created a value between.
