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Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity | 
 enlarge | Author: Erving Goffman
Publisher: Touchstone
Category: Book
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 8749
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 168
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.6 x 0.5
ISBN: 0671622447
Dewey Decimal Number: 155.2
EAN: 9780671622442
ASIN: 0671622447
Publication Date: June 15, 1986
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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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 Assigning to students in Social Deviance September 25, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Although they had a tough time getting past some of the language (i.e. terms that are no longer politically correct that were used when Goffman was writing), my students learned some important ideas from the book. They seemed to actually read it and were probably not intimidated by the theoretical nature of the book due to its brevity. Students quickly grasped that stigma arises within the work of social interaction, that normal is a problematic concept, and that identity and information management are on-going projects.
 Stigma: Notes On the Management Of Spoiled Identity March 12, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is not a new book, however it appears to be an important contribution to the sociological study of the phenomenon of stigma, which deserves more study than it has gotten thus far. Stigma appears to be a major cause of many of society's ills, as well as a result of such ills.
Stigma and identity September 21, 2007
If you are looking for this book, you probably already know that it is THE seminal text on stigma and social identity. If you are just curious, read on and discover what it means to be stigmatized.
Erving Goffman: Stigma May 7, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I was assigned a few chapters out of this for my graduate seminar in social psychology. It is an incredibly powerful book that completely changed my outlook on life and society. I realized by reading this that I - who thought I was a pretty accepting, liberal guy - still harbored some serious prejudices against groups like homosexuals and the physically handicapped. The reason this book is so powerful is that it weaves theory in with a tremendous amount of statements from members of stigmatized groups (like, again, homosexuals or the physically handicapped). To read the words of these people, talking about the incredibly heavy oppression that has characterized their lives, all for no reason other than an mostly arbitrary societal decision as to what things are acceptable and what things aren't....well, it changes you. I recommend this book to (1) social scientists, (2) those who want to be better persons, and most of all (3) social scientists who want to be better persons.
A Sociological Classic May 21, 2006
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
A sociological classic. The author shows stigma through the normal lens of everyday living and extends to the extreme. Most sociologist just summaries their theory either at the end and beginning of the book and then stuff their chapters with useless information hoping the reader will connect the information. Goffman, however, does it. He continues his theorizing from the first page until the end, being very comprehensive about it.
Goffman is a rarity. Few sociologists' works can be viewed in the scientific light that Goffman has produced.
This classic is worth owning.
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