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Stigma : Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity by Erving Goffman (1986, Trade Paperback)

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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
Number of Pages
168 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Sociology / General, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Research, Social Psychology
Publication Year
1986
Genre
Social Science, Psychology
Author
Erving Goffman
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
5.6 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
84-046153
Dewey Edition
19
Dewey Decimal
131.335
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
Synopsis
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., 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.
LC Classification Number
HM291.G624 1986