Minority Studies: A Brief Sociological Text is a very, very brief textbook suitable for use as a supplemental or stand-alone text in a college-level minority studies Sociology course. Any instructor who would choose to use this as a stand-alone textbook would need to supply a large amount of statistical data and other pertinent and extraneous Sociological material in order to "flesh-out" fully this course.
Each module/unit of Minority Studies: A Brief Sociological Text contains the text, course objectives, a study guide, key terms and concepts, a lecture outline, assignments, and a reading list.
Minority studies: a brief text: suggested lecture material for part v—disability
- Define disability and discuss the major forms it takes.
- Physical versus cognitive disability
- Disability in everyday life tasks
- Disability of mobility
- Instrumental activities of daily living (IADL)
- Discuss stereotypes concerning the disabled.Discuss Irving Goffman’s
Stigma
- Discuss the historical time period and background of the theory
- Discuss Goffman’s abominations of the body
- Discuss the Americans with Disabilities Act.
- Use the Internet to find and display statistical socioeconomic data concerning disabilities and the disabled in the United States.
- Use the Internet to find and display statistical information concerning the current legal status of the disabled in the United States.
- Use the Internet to find and display information about US Supreme Court decisions concerning the disabled.
