Find a copy in the library
Finding libraries that hold this item...
Details
Document Type: | Book |
---|---|
All Authors / Contributors: |
Erving Goffman |
ISBN: | 0140552456 9780140552454 0140124756 9780140124750 |
OCLC Number: | 21300582 |
Notes: | Originally published: Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1963. |
Description: | 173 pages ; 20 cm. |
Contents: | Preface -- Stigma and social identity -- Information control and personal identity -- Group alignment and ego identity -- The self and its other -- Deviations and deviance. |
Series Title: | Penguin psychology. |
Responsibility: | Erving Goffman. |
Abstract:
The dwarf, the disfigured, the blind man, the homosexual, the ex-mental patient and the member of a racial or religious minority all share one characteristic: they are all socially "abnormal". This a study of of the ways in which a stigmatized person can develop a more positive social identity.
Read more...
Reviews
User-contributed reviews
Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.
Be the first.
Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.
Be the first.


Tags
Add tags for "Stigma : notes on the management of spoiled identity".
Be the first.