SOC 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Minority Group

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Competing definitions of disability reflect competing stances in an essentially political struggle. Disability: disturbances in body structures or processes which are resent at birth or result from later injury or disease loss of abnormality of psychological, physiological, or anatomical structure function. Disability: restriction or lack of ability to perform activities resulting largely or solely from either: social responses to bodies that fail to meet social expectations, the assumptions about the body reflected in the social or physical environment. The medical model locates impairments and thus disability solely within the individual body. According to many people with disabilities, the answer is no. At first glance such a definition seems perfectly reasonable. Isn"t a disability something that an individual has, a defect in his or her body. Disability ties primarily not from their physical differences but from the way others respond to those differences and from the choices others have made in constructing the social and physical environment.

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