Disability identity

Models of disability
1. The medical model of disability sees disability as a medical problem
Shakespeare
1. 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
2. Major obstacles to forming a positive disabled identity- lack of role models and the media
Barnes
1. Media portrays disabled people in a stereotyped way
2. Mass media representations of disability have generally been oppressive and negative
  1. Several common media representations of people with disabilities
    1. In need of pity and charity
      1. Children in Need
    2. As victims
      1. Children in Need
    3. As villains
      1. Kingsman - Secret service
    4. As super-cripples
      1. 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
    5. As a burdern
      1. Love actually
    6. As sexually abnormal
      1. Undateables
    7. As ordinary or normal
      1. The media rarely portray people with disabilities as normal people who just happen to have a disability
Gill
1. learned helplessness
Murugami
1. self construct a self-identity that accepts their impairment
Interactionism
1. The label 'disabled' carries with a stigma
  1. This affects all interactions between the disabled person and others
2. Master status
  1. defining characteristics by which the individual is judged

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