SOCI 3660 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ableism, Invisible Disability, Paraplegia

• School: York University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 3660
• Professor: Amber Gazso

Document Summary

There is no agreed upon way of defining disability. Oliver points out that there is a common definition: restriction or lack of ability to perform an activity in a way considered normal . Even the idea of the able-bodied person is socially constructed: what it means to be normal is itself an invention. Able-bodied persons behaving and acting in a way that is deemed normal. Some distinguish between visible and invisible disability only makes sense if you are not visually impaired: While there is no agreed-upon sense of disabilities, there is at least a general coalescence of how people experience able bodiedness or not. Ascribes a problem with ability to the individual. That emphasis on the individualthis orientation is seen with poverty: social model of disability: Society and specifically the social environment is disabled, not people. Our ideas about disability and expectations of disabled persons are socially constructed.