Consider the following statements about models of disability and choose the correct option: P) The ‘medical model’ considers disability as a problem that can be fixed by medical intervention alone. Q) The ‘social model’ focuses on altering social arrangements that marginalize atypical bodies.
Evaluating Statement P: Medical Model
The medical model views disability as a defect or illness residing within the individual. It emphasizes diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation by healthcare professionals to 'fix' or manage the condition.
Statement P correctly states that the medical model considers disability a problem solvable primarily through medical intervention.
Evaluating Statement Q: Social Model
Conversely, the social model shifts the focus from the individual's impairment to societal barriers. It argues that disability arises from inaccessible environments, discriminatory attitudes, and social structures that exclude people.
Statement Q accurately reflects this by stating the social model aims to change societal arrangements that marginalize atypical bodies and limit participation.
Conclusion on Statements P and Q
Both statements provide accurate descriptions of the core tenets of the medical model and the social model of disability, respectively.
Therefore, both statements P and Q are correct.
Important Questions from Modern Sociological Theory
- Which among the following is/are advocated by Karl Marx in proposing the Dialectical process?
Match the authors in Column I with their books in Column II.
Column I Column II Author Book L Pierre Bourdieu 1 The Presentation of Self in
Everyday LifeM Erving Goffman 2 The Theory of the Leisure Class N Thorstein Veblen 3 Agricultural Involution O Clifford Geertz 4 A Social Critique of the
Judgement of Taste5 Encountering Development Match the scholars in Column I with their approaches in Column II:
Column I Column II Scholar Approach M George Herbert Mead 1 Symbolic Interactionism N Harold Garfinkel 2 Ethnography O Robert Chambers 3 Ethnomethodology P Clifford Geertz 4 Participatory Research Match the following sociologists in Column I with sociological theory/concept in Column II.
Column I Column II Sociologist Theory/Concept L M. N. Srinivas 1 Alliance Theory M Pierre Bourdieu 2 Emotional Labour N Arlie Hochschild 3 Field O Claude Levi-Strauss 4 Field View 5 Collective Memory - Which of the following statement(s) about the concept of intersectionality as developed by Kimberle Crenshaw is/are CORRECT?
