In small scale societies, a physical impairment does not come to define one’s entire social identity because the individual in small scale societies is related and connected to others in many social roles and contexts.
Author Archives: Sarah Quinto
Ecological Contextual Community Based Theories
The ecological approach concerns the complete environment (context and time): mind, body, social integration, the built environment, and the inherited environment.
Phenomenological Theories
Phenomenology studies the structure of various types of experience ranging from perception, thought, memory, imagination, emotion, desire, and volition to bodily awareness, embodied action, and social activity, including linguistic activity.
Life Cycle Theory
Examines how essential life events relate to ‘transformations of status’ and to ‘roles’ in someone’s life. The Life Cycle Theory offers a critical, heuristic tool for use by ethnographers and others interested in the analysis of disability oppression.
Postmodern Theory
Features of Postmodern Theory: Disability is created when we talk about it. Disabled identity isn’t a person’s only identity. Impairment and disability are equally important in analysis. Disability and degree of disability are determined by context.
British Social Model
The real issues in disability are about oppression, discrimination, inequality and poverty.
Minority Group Model
Current sociopolitical structures produce access barriers for and discrimination against impaired people resulting in disability.
Independent Living Model
Features of the Independent Living Paradigm: Self-Help, Consumer Protection, Demedicalization / Self-Care, Civil Rights, and Deinstitutionalization / Mainstreaming / Normalization.
Supported by systems
I define normal as the way of existing or behaving that is supported by whatever system, institution or structure you are currently engaging with.
Anomaly Theory
Anomaly is defined as phenomena that fall in between cultural categories and create cultural tension and dissonance.
