Stigmais 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. InStigmathe interplay of alternatives the stigmatized individual must face every day is brilliantly examined by one of America's leading social analysts.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Touchstone
ISBN-10
0671622447
ISBN-13
9780671622442
eBay Product ID (ePID)
59891
Product Key Features
Book Title
Stigma : Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity
Author
Erving Goffman
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Sociology / General, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Research, Social Psychology
Publication Year
1986
Genre
Psychology, Social Science
Number of Pages
168 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
5.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hm291.G624 1986
Table of Content
CONTENTS 1. Stigma and Social Identity Preliminary Conceptions The Own and the Wise Moral Career 2. Information Control and Personal Identity The Discredited and the Discreditable Social Information Visibility Personal Identity Biography Biographical Others Passing Techniques of Information Control Covering 3. Group Alignment and Ego Identity Ambivalence Professional Presentations In-Group Alignments Out-Group Alignments The Politics of Identity 4. The Self and Its Other Deviations and Norms The Normal Deviant Stigma and Reality 5. Deviations and Deviance