Proposal

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Societal Attitudes toward Physically Challenged PeopleA Comparative Study between two Generations

Proposal
On
Societal Attitudes toward Physically Challenged PeopleA Comparative Study between two Generations

Presented To Humaira Latifa Ahmed Assistant Professor Institute of Business Administration University of Dhaka Prepared By Md. Abdullah Al Mamun ID: M1314011 Md ujjol Hosain ID: M1314036 Himadri Bhowmic ID: M1314020

March 30, 2013

BANGLADESH UNIVERSITY OF PROFESSIONALS

Background:
In order to explore societal attitudes toward physically challenged people, it is important to be clear as to what is meant by the term attitude. Attitudes have been defined in a variety of ways over the past century, and have various meanings as a result of having bridged both psychology and sociology (Allport, 1954). An attitude may be defined as the individual's tendency to react positively or negatively to some person, object, situation, institution or event (Aiken, 1985; Thomas, 1982). This definition concurs with that of Graharn and LiIly (1984) who describe an attitude as an opinion about something, reflecting how favorable people are towards groups, people, ideas or issues. In addition, the consequences of negative attitudes toward disabled people in terms of social exclusion will be explored. Likewise, the emerging positive attitudes toward disabled people from general persons perspectives will be discussed. There is also presented a trend in societal attitude change toward physically challenged people by comparing between two generations. In this report, we will provide a brief overview of the employment status of people with disabilities, followed by a short discussion of research on attitudes toward people with disabilities in the workplace. We then describe the methods we employed to test our main research question and summarize the results of our study. The article concludes with a discussion of our findings and the limitations of the present study, as well as a discussion of opportunities for future research.

Objectives:
1. To assess the current scenario of public attitudes toward people with disabilities. 2. To compare the societal attitudes of two generations toward people with disabilities in Bangladesh. 3. To investigate attitudes toward different types of disabilities: congenital physical, acquired physical, and psychiatric.

Scope:
The scope of this project is comprised the societal attitude toward people with disability person in our country.

Limitations:
The study mainly focused on general peoples attitude toward people with disabilities in society in the respective field. It does not reflect view of people with disability as the majority of the respondents were from general group. Most of the respondents had received by simple random sampling and the sample size was small, which limits access to the overall situation of the country where disability interventions are absent.

Literature Review:
Public perception of individuals was largely negative in Bangladesh. But now-a-days this situation is changing. People with disability are going to educational institutions and also employed in workplace. This study investigated the influence of two factors on the perception of individuals with disabilities: (1) disability type (congenital physical disability, acquired physical disability, and psychiatric disability), and (2) comparison (between two generations). It was hypothesized that attitude toward people with disabilities would be changed more positively than past. To create a positive change in the societal attitude situation for people with disabilities, there is a need to learn from both the negative and positive experiences. Work Plan: Week Week-1 Week-2 Week-3 Week-4 Activities Collecting data and Tabulating data Analyzing data and Preparing progress report Writing the draft and Revising the draft Editing the draft and printing the final report Person U, H, M U,H H,M U,M

Report Structure: Prefatory parts 1. Cover or Title Fly 2. Title Page 3. Acknowledgement 4. Executive Summary 5. Table or Graph List The body of the report 1. Introduction 2. Discussion 3. Summary 4. Conclusion Appended parts 1.List of References 2.Bibliograph