SOCL 2225 — Sociology of Disability

4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath DDNUpath ERusually offered: falltypical days: M/ThBostonTraditional

Examines how the social model of disability has challenged the predominant medical model defining disability as simply biological impairment and abnormality. Explores how the sociological perspective contributes to understanding lived experiences of disability and how disabilities are deeply interlinked to experiences of racial-ethnic, gender, and class inequality. According to the World Health Organization, some 15 percent of the world’s population lives with disability. Yet what exactly is a disability? Offers students an opportunity to become conversant with theories of the social-historical construction of disabilities, the differences between visible and invisible impairments, the contributions of disability rights activism, and the bioethical questions about difference raised by medical technologies.

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