Stigma

Stigma
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 204
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ISBN-10 : 9781439188330
ISBN-13 : 1439188335
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Book Synopsis Stigma by : Erving Goffman

Download or read book Stigma written by Erving Goffman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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