Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Disability identity
- Models of disability
- The medical model of disability sees disability as a medical problem
- Shakespeare
- Disabled people are often socialised into seeing themeseleves as victims and that people with
impairment may accept victim mentality use it as a reason for failure
- Major obstacles to forming a positive disabled identity- lack of role models and the media
- Barnes
- Media portrays disabled people in a stereotyped way
- Mass media representations of disability have generally been oppressive and negative
- Several common media representations of people with disabilities
- In need of pity and charity
- Children in Need
- As victims
- Children in Need
- As villains
- Kingsman - Secret service
- As super-cripples
- As having special powers or as overcoming their impairment. In films the impaired male body is
often visually represented as perfect physical specimen in a wheelchair.
- Me before you
- As a burdern
- Love actually
- As sexually abnormal
- Undateables
- As ordinary or normal
- The media rarely portray people with disabilities as normal people who just
happen to have a disability
- Gill
- learned helplessness
- Murugami
- self construct a self-identity that accepts their impairment
- Interactionism
- The label 'disabled' carries with a stigma
- This affects all interactions between the disabled person and others
- Master status
- defining characteristics by which the individual is judged