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Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity

Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity

Goffman, Erving

Paperback

CognitionGeneral PsychologyGeneral Sociology

Publisher Price: $18.99

ISBN10: 0671622447
ISBN13: 9780671622442
Publisher: Touchstone Books
Published: Jun 15 1986
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.33 Width: 5.52 Depth: 8.02
Language: English
From the author of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Stigma is analyzes a person's feelings about himself and his relationship to people whom society calls normal.

Stigma is an illuminating excursion into the situation of persons who are unable to conform to standards that society calls normal. Disqualified from full social acceptance, they are stigmatized individuals. Physically deformed people, ex-mental patients, drug addicts, prostitutes, or those ostracized for other reasons must constantly strive to adjust to their precarious social identities. Their image of themselves must daily confront and be affronted by the image which others reflect back to them.

Drawing extensively on autobiographies and case studies, sociologist Erving Goffman analyzes the stigmatized person's feelings about himself and his relationship to normals He explores the variety of strategies stigmatized individuals employ to deal with the rejection of others, and the complex sorts of information about themselves they project. In Stigma the interplay of alternatives the stigmatized individual must face every day is brilliantly examined by one of America's leading social analysts.

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