Culture as Disability
Popularity Report
 |
|||
|
|||
|
|||
|
|||
|
|||
|
Rank
URL Tag Cloud
Bookmark History
Saved by 3 people (0 private), first by anonymouse user on 2006-05-19
- Forestfortrees on 2006-05-19 - Tags academic , anthropology , culture , disabilities , education , learning , papers
Public Sticky notes
Common sense allows that persons unable to handle a difficult problem can be labeled "disabled." Social analysis shows that being labeled often invites a public response that multiplies the difficulties facing the seemingly unable. Cultural analysis shows that disability refers most precisely to inadequate performances only on tasks that are arbitrarily circumscribed from daily life. Disabilities are less the property of persons than they are moments in a cultural focus. Everyone in any culture is subject to being labeled and disabled.
Highlighted by forestfortrees
Public Comment
on 2007-09-04 by forestfortrees