SOC 202 Study Guide - Final Guide: American Medical Association, Music Hall, Ableism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 202
• Professor: Sean Springer

Document Summary

Intellectual or learning disabilities: physical disabilities, psychiatric disabilities, visual impairments, hearing impairments, neurological disabilities. Dominant negative stereotypes: the person as sinister, evil and criminal , the person as better-off dead", the person as maladjusted his own worst enemy , the person as burden , the person as unable to live a sucessful life . Positive stereotypes: the two remaining stereotypes might, at first, seem positive. Like the previous set of stereotypes, they imply that the disability fully defines the individual. Moreover, instead of framing them as individuals entitled to civil rights, they define a disability as a tragic fate that a few have managed to escape. As such, they subordinate persons with disabilities to an inferior status and discourage us from looking at how our society systemically discriminates against them. The disability, according to these stereotypes, is an individual problem, not a social problem.