Exam 10: Disability and Ableism

Alexi is tired of getting rejected or going unnoticed at bars, clubs, and other "normal" places where people meet and date. He has taken to reading the personal advertisements in disability publications in order to get around the culture of __________ that stigmatizes him and keeps him from being seen as an attractive partner for "normal" people.

Erving Goffman described __________ as a spoiled identity with negative consequences.

__________ implicitly allows the nondisabled to minimize the social aspects of disability.

The hegemonic belief system in the United States works to reduce the privileges of men who are strong and self-reliant over those who are physically disabled.

The media tend to __________.

Discuss the benefits of using one theoretical approach to disability instead of another in terms of the attitudes toward rehabilitation. Provide examples of how each approach might impact rehabilitation. Ideal

Mark has a reduced ability to perform normal tasks. This is exacerbated by the individual and institutional discrimination he encounters because he cannot engage in normal activities. Mark has a __________.

When the authors acknowledge that there is an ontological truth about disabilities, they are saying that disability is a social construction.

Only __________ percent of Americans with a disability were born with it.

The disability rights movement has been successful in __________.

Disability shares a number of characteristics common to other socially constructed and marginalized categories of people, including the way __________.

What are the origins of the disability rights movement?

More than a decade after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act and other favorable legislation, the evidence is that __________.

Adherents of this model advocate viewing disability through the lens of the __________ model.

Following his election in 1980, Ronald Reagan enacted policies that greatly strengthened the previously established guarantees for the rights of the disabled.

While Zek sees the point in rehabilitation to help people learn to deal with their own disability, his thoughts are more in line with a(n) __________ approach to disability which focuses rehabilitation on removing barriers to participation because he thinks the problem resides outside of the individual.

Disabled people often encounter which of the following responses?

The __________to disability defines disability as primarily an individual issue.

Discuss the impact the Americans with Disabilities Act has had on the lives of the disabled. How do you imagine daily life has changed? Does the ADA reflect a more medical or social approach? Ideal

The social approach to disability defines disability in terms of some physiological impairment due to genetic heritage, accident, or disease.