PSY345H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Industrial Revolution, Social Isolation, Social Exclusion
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On the far end of the upper side. In reality: it"s an exception to the average, either being higher or lower. When we talk about disability: we talk about the low end, impairments. Social isolation (murder, confinement outside society: down the road in other stages, these themes from stages may have persisted, biblical times. A civil society looked like: widows and orphans had to be protected, the acknowledgment that there are people in society that are needier and need to be protected. Also saw that people with disabilities were not really allowed to participate in religious ceremonies if you can"t do what they ask you (like read) then you cannot participate, and this puts you lower down. Saying some people aren"t holy if they have a deformity. People with disabilities were often confined outside of the town, with walls like quarantine. If things were very contagious, the only solution they really had was to isolate those individuals.
