IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jscscx/v11y2022i6p231-d823455.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Analysis of Mockery and Discrimination towards People with Disabilities in Cartoons: The Family Guy Case

Author

Listed:
  • Jaime Garcia-Claro

    (Department of Education, University of Huelva, 21007 Huelva, Spain)

  • Octavio Vazquez-Aguado

    (Department of Sociology & Social Work, University of Huelva, 21007 Huelva, Spain)

  • Roberto Martinez-Pecino

    (Department of Social Psychology, University of Seville, 41018 Seville, Spain)

Abstract

Disability is a topic that arouses social interest and that has been approached and represented in different ways throughout history. Analysing media portrayals of disability is needed to ease the development of inclusive societies. This work aims to identify the social representations of people with disabilities and the cases of mockery and discrimination that appear in the well-known Family Guy cartoons. For this purpose, a mixed methodology has been chosen, extracting all possible cases of the concepts used to refer to disability. The results show that the most commonly used concepts are pejorative and typical of dispensational and medical-rehabilitative paradigms. Regarding mockery and discrimination, it is observed that when both are related to a direct interaction with people with a disability, they appear in a much higher percentage. Although Family Guy is not an educational series and is aimed at audiences over 16 years of age, the results of this work promote media education as a tool to critically analyse the representations offered by the media to promote an inclusive society.

Suggested Citation

  • Jaime Garcia-Claro & Octavio Vazquez-Aguado & Roberto Martinez-Pecino, 2022. "Analysis of Mockery and Discrimination towards People with Disabilities in Cartoons: The Family Guy Case," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 11(6), pages 1-15, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:11:y:2022:i:6:p:231-:d:823455
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/11/6/231/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/11/6/231/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:11:y:2022:i:6:p:231-:d:823455. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.