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GCSE Sociology · key term
An approach which explains disability through barriers in society, such as inaccessible buildings, unsuitable communication and discriminatory attitudes, rather than treating impairment alone as the cause of disadvantage.
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Paper 2
Revise: Factors Affecting Life ChancesThe social model of disability, developed by disabled people, instead draws attention to barriers in the world around them. It does not deny that impairments affect people’s lives; it asks how social arrangements create avoidable disadvantages.
Component 2
An explanation that locates disability in the barriers society creates for people with impairments, rather than in the impairment itself.
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The medical model and social model of disability offer different explanations. A model is a way of understanding an issue, not a description that necessarily fits everyone’s experience.
