Question 1REQUIRED: Hughes, Bill, and Kevin Paterson. “The Social Model of Disability and the Disappearing Body: Towards a Sociology of Impairment.” Disability & Society 12, no. 3 (June 1997): 325–340.Note that Hughes and Paterson are writing from the tradition of post-structuralism (or post-modernism) and phenomenology. These are two of the philosophical traditions or movements that have rejected the “modernism” or “modernist tradition” of Descartes and the dominant tradition in Western philosophy.How did the sociology of the body and the sociology of disability go in contradictory directions, according to Hughes and Paterson?How did the social model of disability repeat the mind/body dualism of Descartes?What is wrong with the way the social model of disability treats the body, according to Hughes and Paterson?What positive contribution can post-structuralism make to disability theory?What is the weakness of post-structuralism, according to Hughes and Paterson?What positive contribution can phenomenology make to disability theory?Question 3REQUIRED: Chiten, Laurel. 2012. Twitch and Shout; a Film about Tourette’s Syndrome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICvxqecexOAHow do the experiences described in Twist and Shout help to show that people with Tourette’s Syndrome have unique perspectives to bring to the issue of embodiment? Be sure to think about the different dimensions of embodiment when thinking about your answer.
