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Apr 21, 2026
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SOC 3110 - Disability, Identity, & Society
This course explores how understandings of disability are socially constructed across time and place, shaping competing definitions of disability and approaches to advocacy that impact the lived experiences of individuals and communities. We analyze the role of social institutions in shaping these processes, including medicine, education, work, family, technology, politics, law, popular culture, and the nonprofit sector, and consider how disability intersects with other social identities, including race, class, gender, sexuality, and place. We also study disability arts and cultures, exploring how disabled communities have resisted marginalization, and examine how these creative and activist efforts offer new ways of understanding the relationship between disability, identity, and society.
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS: Bridge: Diversity and Practice
Thematic Arches:
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Students will be able to explain how disability is socially constructed and how concepts of disability vary according to time and social contexts.
- Students will be able to define disability using sociological perspectives and compare and contrast sociological frameworks with medical frameworks.
- Students will be able to discuss their own cultural rules and biases regarding disabilities.
- Students will be able to identify ways in which social inequalities result from constructions of disability and the role of institutions in these processes.
- Students will be able to explain how disability intersects with other social categories, such as gender, sexualities, race, class, and place, and act in a supportive manner that recognizes the feelings of another cultural group.
- Students will be able to critically discuss the tensions between academic theories, disability activism, and the lived experiences of people with disabilities.
- Students will be able to develop complex questions of other cultures related to disability and develop answers that reflect multiple cultural perspectives.
- Students will be able to identify cultural differences in verbal and non-verbal communication related to disability and discuss possibilities for shared understanding based on those differences.
- Students will be able to initiate and develop interactions with culturally different others related to disability, while suspending judgment in valuing their interactions with culturally different others.
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