Hi Rohhss and Rob
I hope all in well in Cumbria
I completely agree with the limitations and the social model and would go
further.
The social model has been a useful tool to getting civil rights. But civil
rights is
about disabled people conforms to society by working, using public transport
and being great and conformist citizens. That is great for people like M
Oliver who haveb the non-disabled cultural background and pre-impairment
social status and independence to become socially normal. The social model
is very much a 'cure' in a social sense in the same way of the medical
model.
For people with learning difficults, severe impairments, older people etc
etc, their personal agendas and level of ability to socially conform may be
different. Employment is a falsity of the 20th Century and does not properly
exist in the 9-5 using a train way for many non-disabled people. I agree
that actually disability is a big economic activity in its own right, even
it is controlled by the wrong people at the movement.
My currently interest of the relationships between impairment, identity and
lifestyle, which puts the social model on the backk seat and looks at the
physchosocial response in daily living, examining power dimesions, decision
making psychological barriers to conformity vs meeting need and so on, which
I think goes far beyond many social model theorists.
The disability movements wAnt get on a bus and drive to demos to protest
about it, I have meet people who does have the right to choose how and when
they go to the toilets due to an inability for his family to acknowledge his
non-verbal communication method!
Thanks
Simon
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and Rob Chapman
Sent: 04 February 2000 23:37
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Subject: Social model limitations
Hi
Ive been doing a lot of thinking around the situation of people with
learning difficulties vis-a-vis the social model. I work for People
First.
My feeling is this thus far.
People with learning difficulties have historically been marginalised
from the disability rights movement which uses social model as
theoretical foundation.
There is currently some change happening in this.
But Michael Oliver writes admitting that people with learning diffs. had
been excluded theoretically and it was wrong....but then does not go on
to be inclusive....
Whilst most people would welcome social model with open arms (myself
included), there is a feeling that only the most vocal and able could
operate within this model. What of those who cannot articulate?
The social model is set apart from previous functionalist models and
relates to materialism but it is not extensive enough to include all the
people that need to be part of it.
Well , if anyone knows how it does ~ please let me know.
Reegards
Rohhss Chapman.
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