Stigma: Notes On the Management of Spoiled Identity (Pelican S.) - Softcover

Goffman, Erving

 
9780140209983: Stigma: Notes On the Management of Spoiled Identity (Pelican S.)

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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.

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Erving Goffman (1922-1982) was one of the most influential sociologists of the twentieth century. He was Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.

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