Showing posts with label Disability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Disability. Show all posts

Assignment on Social status of Disability

A disabled individual is one who cannot make or takes some sensory capacity that the majority of the population has.

Loss or lack of functioning either physical or mental such as blindness, paralysis or mental sub normality, which unlike illness is usually permanent.

· Disability are usually stigmatizing. moreover diabled persons ofter need extra financial and person support and are a key group in social security and welfare programmes. (Oxford dictior ary of sociology)

· Disability is a social and political category in that it entails practices of regulations and struggles for choice, empowerment and rights. (Oliver, 1989 Fulcher 1989)

· Disability is thus a form of opperession which entails social restrietors as oliver has sopowerfully argedi.