Leisure as a Positive Engaging Tool to the Disabled in Society (Essay Sample)

Student Name: Farid Beybudov

EDUC 10211 SOCIOLOGICAL & PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES IN LEISURE SCIENCE
LEISURE AS A POSITIVE ENGAGING TOOL TO THE DISABLED IN SOCIETY
WORD COUNT:
Institution: University of Manchester
Course: BA in Management and Leisure 11281
Tutor: Steven Courtney
Date: 11.12.2014
LEEISURE AS A POSITIVE ENGAGING TOOL TO THE DISABLED IN SOCIETY
Contents
Introduction 3
Content 4
2.1.Leisure Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.2.Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.3.Theory X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.4.Theory Y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.5.Motivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.6.Incentives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Analysis . 7
Application 8
Evaluation 9
Conclusion 10
Reference 11

Leisure as a positive engaging tool to the disabled in society
One can define leisure as use of free time enjoyment. In this regard, leisure serves as a particular activity of entertainment that is helpful at reducing stress and tension in daily life of an individual. The leisure industry refers to the segment in the business area that focuses on the entertainment, recreation, and the tourism-related products and services. The industry has developed to reach a point where university degrees and disciplines focus on it. For example, Cornell University School of the Hotel Administration, and the San Jose State University’s department of hospitality have the recreation and tourism management. Both recreation and leisure activities entail the critical dimension of the quality of life to people of all calibers, together with those people with developmental disabilities. Leisure is a vehicle through which people have their fun, be able to meet and make new friends, developing skills and competencies. However, traditionally, leisure activities have been receiving low priority as a specific area that requires providing support and assistance.
The aim of this paper is to justify how leisure can be a positive tool for engaging the disabled people in society. The paper is going to conduct a critical evaluation on a set of scholarly literature in relation to disability and leisure. The assignment intends to achieve an understanding on the relation between leisure and disability. Finally, this is a valid area of investigation it that it may act as a guidance tool for enhancing leisure activities to the disabled personalities and advising on appropriate care of the disabled in society.
The mistake of theorizing issues related to the disabled
According to the Oliver (1998), it is apparent that all health and research are under the influence of theories. There are such considerations, one on the influence that caused by the implicit and explicit theories upon the interventions and research on the disabled people. Another consideration is the experience of the disabled people, alongside the increasing insistence on the need of hearing their voices at all stages of life. Fundamentally, the idea that the health care provided to the disabled people receives its influence from the theories. In particular, positivist theory is the dominant influence on the health and care provided to the disabled people while other theories are similarly beginning to have some significant influence (Oliver, 1998. Pp 1446). Finally, the rise of these theories poses the important questions for the health care research.
Oliver (1998) said that it is evident that the society considers impairments as social and political issues, rather than considering it as a medical issue. This explains of the social restrictions that the society subjects the impaired individual in the society. However, the domination of the positivism theories on research in regards to disability and impairments focuses in searching for cures and other means for reducing these impairments. The implicit and explicit social theories have started changing on the understanding of the nature of impairment and disability.
In addition to Oliver’s view, it is recommendable for researchers to develop a new understanding for the appropriate means of approaching the medical and social progress, especially in the capacity that involves considering disability as medical complications, rather than considering disabilities as social and political activities. It is recommendable to specify on the people that should be in charge of research, determine on how disability research is subject to disseminate and evaluate, and engage in setting research agendas.
The same mistake of theorizing issues related to the disabled people extends to lack of involving the disabled people in doing research. According to Walmsley (2004), it is important to involve the disabled people in research activities in order to determine how to make them effective and productive members of the society. Researchers nowadays argued on the role such people play although it is essential in the case where people with learning difficulties are fully to engage in research Moreover, Walmsley argued that people with learning difficulties have been hidden and obscure, but involving them in research will be important for a number of reasons (Walmsley, 2004. Pp 13). Inclusive research in this case is a term coined to the shorthand of the various strands of research whereby people having learning difficulties are subject to involve as active participants, including the participatory and the emancipatory research.
Apart from that people having learning difficulties require support for them to live fulfilling lives. It thus justifies on the need for including them in research (Walmsley, 2004). This argument is substantial in that involving people with learning difficulties in research will help provide some unattended insights hence help at devising recommendable and conclusive outcomes. For example, involving people with learning difficulties will be effective in that they will readily discuss and insightfully comment on the nature of the support they require. The theory that is common in the society is that the research process relies heavily on the intellectual skills. It is less accessible to the people with learning disabilities as compared to the groups of people with disabilities, who happen not to be experiencing any intellectual impairment. Finally, the role under investigation is how inclusive research is important in everyday use for clarifying on the needs of the disabled.
Social involvement of the disabled
The concept of theorizing matters related to the disabled people has been there for some decades now. As an example, (Tregaskis, 2004) uses the social model theories in explaining the oppression of the disabled people in Britain. He explains this in the long line of the socially concerned responses to the effects arising from the rise of capitalism and industrialization. Tregaskis (2004) discusses how the disabled people coming from all social classes encounter oppression and exclusion by the capitalist society that does not put their needs into account. There are instances when individual people having impairments may receive protection from particular instances of oppressions due to their classes, gender, ethnicity, or sexuality. However, it remains equally the case in several situations that impairment is the primary excuse for mainstreaming on the oppressive practices.
It also argued by the Tregaskis (2004) that with the ongoing oppression of the disabled people, engaging in further development of social model theories will be essential for supporting disabled people through their daily struggles against social exclusion. One of the claims that the Tregaskis is interested in is how to achieve engaging disabled people in all aspects of their lives. The concept should be in the present day political and social climate. I find the claim by the author as substantial enough in that the current society operates through the political and social influences, hence making it difficult to engage the disabled in development activities. Tregaskis (2004) used theories of activism, formation of alliances, and developing shared agendas for change, hence helpful at bridging the gap between non-disabled and disabled people in society. I tend to find these theories are convincing enough since the author is descriptive and analytic.
Similarly, there is an aspect of considering disability as form oppression, hence making other people see the disabled as the less privileged. According to Goodley (2001), identification with people labeled of ‘learning difficulties’ has the contradictory personal and political implications. Goodley argues for the need of reconsiderations of impairment matters in relation to the ‘learning difficulties’ at the level of epistemology (Goodley, 2001. Pp 207). His study is valid for sociology and leisure in that it helps in setting grounds of the analysis through calling for attention in the manner of which assumptions upon ‘learning difficulties’ impact on the treatment of the so-la...