Ethno

Describe the effects that having a physical disability can have on a person’s day to day life

2.2 Describe the ways in which an individual with dementia may be subjected to discrimination and oppression

The Medical Model regards disability as an individual problem. It promotes a traditional view of disability, that it is something to be ‘cured’, even though many conditions have no cure. The problem is seen as the disabled person and their impairment, not society, and the solution is seen as adapting the disabled person to fit the non-disabled world, often through medical intervention. Control resides firmly with professionals; choices for the individual are limited to the options provided and approved by the 'helping' expert.

Ethnography tells about a culture and the members that comprise this culture. A definition is the scientific description of the customs and individual people of a culture. The process of doing this assignment allowed me to explore another aspect of a cultural group. I was able to learn extensively about interactions between individuals and how see them as a culture. The group that comprises my ethnography is a cultural group very common to Utah. The culture I focused on was the LDS culture, to be more specific I studied a sub-culture of this group. My subculture was a group of 12 year old adolescents that are a Sunday school class in this culture.

A. The problem here is that people are already burdened with an illness and on top of that, it is a long and painful process that they must endure.

Ethnography is a qualitative method of research in which the researcher takes part in the activities of a group such that they are able to complete their observations over a period of time in a natural, real-life environment.

As we begin to go on an excursion through literature, it is important to understand the concept of what an ethnography is. Ethnography is known to be a descriptive type of work that analyzes culture and customs of individual people. James Clifford has implemented this work into his studies and has influenced many others to do the same. I saw through the books I have read, ethnography makes these books become vivacious for a reader.

Ethnographic methodology provides rich and complex data (Brownlow, 2012). In the ethnographic approach a researcher joined the studied group in their natural environment, stayed as a part

This isn’t to say that there were none these issues around the area. However, the stigma refers to the notion that ‘every’ resident of the Elizabeth displayed those characteristics, purely by the fact that they

Goffman’s work Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity (1968) shows how people want to conform to the social norm by being ‘normal’ and how this want leads to feelings of exclusion and the sense of a social stigma. Goffman describes stigmatization as building a difference. “While the stranger is present before us, evidence can arise of his possessing an attribute that makes him different from others in the category of persons available for him to be, and of a less desirable kinds - in the extreme, a person who is quite thoroughly bad, or dangerous, or weak. He is thus reduced in our minds from a whole and usual person to a tainted, discounted one. Such an attribute is a stigma, especially when its discrediting effects is vey extensive; sometimes it is also called a failing, a shortcoming, a handicap” (p. 12). This shows that the rejection from society to a person is a social stigma. Many students with disabilities are not considered normal, which gives with a social stigma. Having this stigma encourages conformity. Without a society, there isn’t a social stigma. This solidifies the fact that stigmas emerge from social relationships. The theory doesn’t care about the qualities and/or disabilities of the person, the theory only cares about making these qualities different by another party (Scholarly Writers Who Use English as an Additional Language: What Can Goffman). People naturally want

This paper will be a critique of Erving Goffman’s theory of Stigma. Goffman provides a very powerful analysis of motivation in everyday social interactions. He implements a strong emphasis on the idealized forms of behavior and mannerisms of the pressures on individuals to conform to the given societal expectations. (what does Goffman stigma tell us?) This paper will further offer an exploration of Goffman 's ideas and will identify both strengths and weaknesses within Goffman 's theory of stigma. To begin, this paper will offer a summary of the theory. Next, a critique examining stigma and comparing it to many related processes. To continue, I will be discussing the lack of attention Goffman gives to the broader, social- structural concerns that lead to stigmatization. To conclude, this paper will recognize the great work his theory has provided for understanding deviancy.

Goffman felt that there was already good work done on the topic of stigma. However, he wanted to discuss the previous works and his own ideas regarding stigma. Writing Stigma Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity provided him a place to discuss his ideas regarding prior work on stigma, and to give his spin on it.

Ethnocide would still be considered a genocide because, as Martin Shaw points out, “groups are social constructions.” This means that cultures are not just the individuals who make up a specific group, but they are instead the ideas those in the group hold to be true. Even if murder is not involved, ethnocide would still be considered a genocide because the culture is being destroyed by removing their political or economic power to spread their ideas. Furthermore, Daniel Feierstein argues that ethnocide is genocide because, “The main objective of genocidal destruction is the transformation of the victims into ‘nothing’ and the survivors into ‘nobodies,’ that is, their social death.” This illustrates how eliminating their culture’s existence

Furthermore, Goffman introduces the reader to two main groups of characters in his logic: the “normal” and the stigmatized and classifies the stigmatized again into the discredited and the discreditable. The discredited show an obvious discrepancy between their actual and their virtual social identity, while the discreditable do not immediately show their differentness. Additionally, the reader gets introduced to the terms (1) social information, (2) symbols, (3) status symbols and (4) stigma symbols

Disability is a human reality that has been perceived differently by diverse cultures and historical periods.  For most of the 20th century, disability was defined according to a medical model. In the medical model, disability is assumed to be a way to characterize a particular set of largely static, functional limitations. This led to stereotyping and defining people by condition or limitations.