SOCL 3501 Chapter : Chapter 10 Notes
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Treat them like infants, most people equate physical with mental disabilities: having a physical disability is a master status. Others see it at the sum of who they are. Non-disabled people see disabled people as victims who need our help. It comes from their own discomfort level, they either stare or completely ignore them, and they just don"t know what to do. People with physical disabilities are reduced and pushed down to a childlike role. Managing the stigma : how people with stigma manage. Blind people wear dark shades to lessen the stigma, it also takes care of others discomfort: every culture has ideals of how the body should look. In a study, physical appearance didn"t affect mild deviance, subjects explained deviance in a way to make it okay . For more serious forms of deviance, physical appearance mattered, so unattractive kids where sought out to be.
