Stigma

Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity

AvErving Goffman

Häftad, Engelska, 1986

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1986-01-01
Mått:140 x 205 x 10 mm
Vikt:150 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:168
Förlag:Simon & Schuster
ISBN:9780671622442

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Erring Goffman was born in Manville, Alberta (Canada) in 1922. He came to the United States in 1945, and in 1953 received his PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago. He was professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley until 1968, and thereafter was Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Dr. Goffman received the MacIver Award in 1961 and the In Medias Res Award in 1978. He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He died in 1983. Dr. Goffman's books include The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Encounters, Asylums, Behavior in Public Places, Stigma, Interaction Ritual, Strategic Interaction, Relations in Public, Frame Analysis, and Gender Advertisements.

Innehållsförteckning

CONTENTS1. Stigma and Social IdentityPreliminary ConceptionsThe Own and the WiseMoral Career2. Information Control and Personal IdentityThe Discredited and the DiscreditableSocial InformationVisibilityPersonal IdentityBiographyBiographical OthersPassingTechniques of Information ControlCovering3. Group Alignment and Ego IdentityAmbivalenceProfessional PresentationsIn-Group AlignmentsOut-Group AlignmentsThe Politics of Identity4. The Self and Its OtherDeviations and NormsThe Normal DeviantStigma and Reality5. Deviations and Deviance