SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes -Alternative Medicine, Gerontocracy, Invisible Disability
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Perks: found that height has a bigger effect on income than whether one is an immigrant or a member of visible minority group; for most people. Impaired: people are considered deficient in physical or mental capacity. Disability: physical or mental problem that keeps people from performing within the range of. Normal human activity; definitions of disability differ across societies and historical periods; Normal and deficient is subjective, thus disability is socially constructed. Rehabilitation: curing disabilities through medical intervention; trying to improve lives of people with disabilities by means of care, training and education; integrating people with disabilities into society. In the worst case, others tried to kill those with disabilities or sterilize them to prevent childbirth. Ableism: prejudice and discrimination against people who have disabilities, including neglect: changing ableism: people with disabilities begun to assert their autonomy and dignity of difference . Demedicalization: condition that has been considered a disorder ceasing to be labelled as such (ex: homosexuality).
