Paul Hunt disability research

Research PAUL HUNT - the ten disabilty sterotypes as this may occur in the exam.
social model - society aspect .... and also phyical model, main aspects need to look for and LINK them!

The individual model
The societal view of disability generally conforms to the individual or overcoming or medical model of disability. This holds that disability is inherent in the individual, whose responsibility it is to ‘overcome’ her or his ‘tragic’ disability. Often this ‘overcoming’ is achieved through medical intervention, such as attempts at ‘cures’. This approach to disability aims for the normalisation of disabled people, often through the medicalisation of their condition.

The social model of disability
This distinguishes between impairment (the physical or mental 'problem') and disability (the way society views it as being a negative). It holds that impairments are not inherently disabling, but that disability is caused by society which fails to provide for people with impairments, and which puts obstacles in their way.

Examples include access: the built environment often does not allow access for people with mobility problems.

Discriminatory attitudes are also disabling: for example, the idea that disability is a personal tragedy for the ‘sufferer’ impinges upon disabled people in a variety of negative ways, from their social relationships to their ability to get jobs.

Paul Hunt:

Paul Hunt identified 10 stereotypes that the media use to portray disabled people:

1. The disabled person as pitiable or pathetic -This means deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; most of these you would find a link to in a tv drama.

2. An object of curiosity or violence - This means that they are very self aware of themselfs and feels more uncomfortable in a soical enviroment and they are defenceless in some aspects e.g. if someone is blind they cannot see where people are a hazard to themsleves, and if some is in a wheelchair they cannot move there body as a normal person can, and could be used as a emotion weapon to family in a tv drama. E.g. they could be caught and help hostiage untill the main charcter - hero pay the victim! the money - (princess).

3. Sinister or evil - stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; meaning in a tv drama they could all look defenceless and sweet but behind closed doors they are evil and backstabbers which leads to a dilemma in a storyline. Also if they get themsleves into a fight they cannot do anything and someone who is phyical non disable will have to get involved e.g. a blind person in daredevil when he is a superhero (film).

4. The super cripple - Cannot do anything and causes a problem in a storyline, someone will have to look after them to keep the survivial a more higher percentage.

5. As atmosphere - It changes the social rate in either outdoors or in a pub if a disabled enters, e.g. if someone has a burnt face from a fire people will look at them like they are a freak of nature and react different to them and try to aviod them at all costs.

6. Laughable - Some of them can be funny as they are disabled they cant do much in the sexual and soical aspect so they try to be funny round people, mostly you will see them in a a pub, this increases thier indentity in a tv drama e.g. phoneix nights they have used a famous commedian for the disabled person ----> peter Kay as he is known around the globe.

7. His/her own worst enemy - An emery to themselves, they hate being disabled and they are depressed because of their disability in a TV drama this would link to suicide and dilemmas and cliffhangers.

8. As a burden - an onerous or difficult concern; "the burden of responsibility" too much hassle in other words to go out with to a nightclub maybe, so the person will make a lie in a drama to leave them in the house or just say they don't want the hassle.

9. As Non-sexual - As the person is disabled they are going to be disabled in the sexual aspects e.g. is the person is in a wheelchair they cannot move, also if one person is blind it will hard because the person will not be able to see. So with this is alienates them away from this in any programme.

10. Being unable to participate in daily life - this means that the disabled person can't participate daily things in life there are many examples of this, they will not be able to play sports as well, if the person is in a wheelchair he or she will need help up the stairs or someone to help e.g. little Britain. Also yet again it alienates them from the use of daily life which makes them disappear in a programme.

So from this research i i can now look any programme and relate to the key point with paul hunt and disability, yet again the red writing and bold words are the key aspects.