Goffman suggests that disability becomes people’s master status overruling everything else. This shows that societies views and opinions on disabled people is what has caused them to be seen as different from everybody else and that it makes people feel as if their disability is the only thing that people look at. This suggests that disability is
Institutionally companies, health care system, and welfare funds only confirm to a larger extent how has the ageism entered in the modern society. Health care system is youth centered rather than adult centered choosing the acute care over chronic care. Businesses are being even more radical in reinforcement of stereotype of choosing only young workers. Welfare systems are nothing but children and adolescents focused excluding the services for older adults. The most common negative myths and stereotypes about ageing mentioned are; illnesses impotency, ugliness, mental decline, mental illness, uselessness, isolation, poverty, depression and political power.
Social model of disability The social model of disability is civil right base approach to disability; it was developed by disability people in the 80s and 90s. This model focuses on challenging and removing the barriers in front of disable people, barriers prevent disabled people from living full and active lives These barriers including: • Buildings are built that disabled people cannot get into. • Information is produced in ways that disabled people cannot benefit from. • Stereotyping disabled people prevent us from having the same opportunities as non-disabled people. • Special services are created that keep disabled people segregated and cut off from everybody else.
Disability is defined in different ways. There are a number of models of disability, but the main models of disability are: The Medical model, whereby the disability is considered as the condition, or the affliction, or the illness. The Social model, whereby the disability is considered to be the society which presents the problems and prevents the individual participating fully in social life. And the Psychosocial model, that refers to mental ill health, as well as maladjusted, cognitive and behavioural problems which may prevent the individual functioning in social situations. Up until the early 1970’s people who had an impairment, or an illness were considered as disabled.
Societies look on handicapped people The way society look on handicapped these days isn’t really fair, if you ask me. There are so many ways to be handicapped, some are more handicapped than others, but it’s like, once you’ve got a diagnosis, then people start the judging and their behaviour around you change. Not that I’m handicapped myself, but I know a lot of people who is, and the way people treat them, is sometimes really unbelievable. The way society is today makes it hard to live with a handicap, without being judged. It’s all about the look, the money and what you can accomplish, and with a handicap, that makes it hard to fit in.
Q1. Explain how attitudes are changing in relation to individuals with learning disabilities. Society’s attitudes and behaviour towards people with learning disabilities have had a major impact on their lives and continue to do so. This has led to people having negative and devaluing experiences, including rejection, physical segregation, isolation, poverty, and lack of relationships, bullying and harassment, and a lack of control over their lives. One of the biggest changes has been the move away from medical models of disability, focused on individual pathology (or "what was wrong" with them) and towards a social model which views disability in terms of the social restriction and oppression imposed by non-disabled people.
Structural-Functionalist Theories of Social Problems: Social Pathology- According to certain Social Models, social problems are said to come from some sort of sickness. You are normally born with this illness much like a sickness that makes the body become ill. The difference is a normal sickness is much easier to identify and cure. A social sickness can go on for years or even a lifetime before they are discovered. A social illness is defined as when a member of society is not adequately socialized to adopt its norms and values.
These stereotypes are making them seem like a genius, a beast, that they can’t hold sexual relationships, and the butt of a joke. The medical model of disability is somewhat strange and hard to understand. Judgment is based off of the person’s development be it mental or physical. When these judgments are made, people are classified as a problem to be fixed or just as an injured person who has no hope in fitting in. People with a disability are seen and said to be a personal problem to the family.
This may result in discrimination, resulting in exclusion from jobs, an income, limited education, lack of social and community opportunities and possibly feeling powerless’ (Europa, 2003). A structural view from Field (1989) and Dahrendorf (1987) who believe it is the structures in society that exclude people. Another, interpretation from the Social Exclusion Unit London (SEU) states social exclusion is 'a shorthand label for what can happen when individuals or areas suffer from a combination
MOTION: DOES SOCIAL DEPRIVATION CAUSES CRIME? - FOR Social deprivation is a persisting inadequacy in access to minimally supportive social contact including interpersonal interaction, associative inclusion, and interdependent care. This inadequacy is not exclusive to, nor universal amongst, the economically deprived; it is endured in arenas of institutional segregation, for example by prisoners and patients held in solitary confinement, and it is endured by persons who suffer less organised forms of isolation or neglect. Firstly, Economic hardships and the struggles of life may result in the reduction of adequate child supervision and socialization, either directly by parents having to devote a considerable amount of time to earning income, or indirectly through family breakup. Economic deprivation also reduces social trust and facilitates social disorganization, which in turn leads to youth violence and crime.