Very good Jenny…and particularly pertinent at the moment as one of the legacies of the Paralympics might be an increase in the tendency to define disabled people by their impairments…as Jimmy Carr put it on the “Last Leg”, when he sees a disabled person in the street he now thinks “oh you are a T44; there’s an S8”.

Claire

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From: The Disability-Research Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Margo Milne
Sent: 10 September 2012 10:30
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Subject: Re: social model of disability et al

Slightly off topic, I’ve been thinking for a while that a good teaching tool would be to get students to explain concepts in 140 characters...

Margo

From: The Disability-Research Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of jennymorris
Sent: 10 September 2012 10:25
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Subject: Re: social model of disability et al

I’d endorse Anat’s suggestion but also thought you might be interested that, having spent years writing many words on the social model, I had to fit it into Twitter’s 140 characters this morning. This was in response to someone who had pleaded that the term ‘people with disabilities’ was used rather than ‘disabled people’. My response was:

No. ‘People with disabilities’ defines us by our impairments, ‘disabled people’ by what society does to us.

Jenny

From: The Disability-Research Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of anat greenstein
Sent: 08 September 2012 21:15
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Subject: Re: social model of disability et al

Hi Kate,
You might want to try this short paper by Oliver from the Leeds disability archive

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/archiveuk/Oliver/in%20soc%20dis.pdf.

In general, the archive contains very useful texts.
Hope this helps
anat

On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Kate Kaul <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi, everybody.

Apologies for cross-posting.

For a third-year sociology class, I need a readable introduction to the social model of disability -- and it must be available online, e.g. through my university's broad access to journals like Disability and Society, DSQ, etc.

Can anyone help me out?

Thank you,

Kate Kaul

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