The Disability Rights Movement: from Charity to Confrontation - Book Report/Review Example

Fleischer and Zames (2011, pp. 201-203) define culture with regard to disability. Disability culture tends to posit the relevance of the disabled experience to the larger population, whereby, most of their experiences are captured in the mainstream media.There are various similarities and differences between disability culture and other cultures or cultural groups. For instance, both forms of culture can simply be defined as the customs and beliefs of a specific group or society. However, the difference is that the term disability has various connotations to different cultures.

For instance, disability culture entails people who have a shared commonality such as been impaired; thus, preventing them from thinking, seeing, hearing, or walking among others. Disability culture and other cultural groups are similar since they share a set of shared goals, practices, and attitudes. For instance, a disability culture might have a common goal to have their rights represented and respected just as other cultural groups. Although they are similar to some extent, they differ since cultural groups are more racial, ethnic, and intellectually oriented.

They share similar ethnic or racial practices and values and have a particular way of working or thinking. Cultures might also entail an organization’s set of beliefs, which brings employees together with an aim of enhancing productivity.