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Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity
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| Part No: | 0671622447 |
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- ISBN13: 9780671622442
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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.
| useful, but...... | 2010-05-15 | 3 / 5 |
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I HAVE BEEN LEFT (UNNECESSARILY) SEVERELY FACIALLY DISFIGURED BY MEDICAL INCOMPETENCE FOLLOWING UK NHS SURGERY IN JANUARY 2009, SO HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND ANY USEFUL SOURCE OF INFORMATION OR WAY FORWARD.
I'D CATEGORISE THIS BOOK AS USEFUL, BUT OF AN ACADEMIC RATHER THAN A PRACTICAL NATURE.
I'M ALSO NOT PARTICULARLY KEEN ON THE DISFIGURED AND DISABLED BEING LUMPED IN WITH CRIMINALS OR OTHER SOCIETY OUTSIDERS LIKE PROSTITUTES. BUT THEN AGAIN, IT IS A STUDY OF SOCIAL STIGMA, AND THE VIEWS FOR EXAMPLE OF THE CHILD OF A CRIMINAL, SCORNED BY HER SCHOOL COLLEAGUES BECAUSE THEIR PARENTS DON'T THINK THAT THEY SHOULD MIX WITH HER, ARE OF COURSE RELEVANT.
IT HAS USEFUL COMMENTS ABOUT THE ANNOYANCE FELT BY PEOPLE LIKE ME WHEN STRANGERS THINK THAT BECAUSE WE'RE DISFIGURED, THEY'RE ENTITLED TO INVADE OUR PRIVACY, WITH THEIR NOSEYNESS AND PATRONISING COMMENTS. AND SOME OF THE ANECDOTAL ACCOUNTS ARE TIMELESS, AND HELPFUL.
BUT OVERALL IT CONTAINS NO USEFUL SUGGESTIONS FOR THE DISFIGURED, SO I'D RATE IT AS ACADEMICALLY INTERESTING BUT NOT REALLY OF PRACTICAL USE. |
| Goffmanesque | 2010-01-31 | 5 / 5 |
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Erving Goffman's notable paperback titled "Stigma" is a masterpiece of his collection. Barney G. Glaser, co-author of "The Discovery of Grounded Theory", speaks of this book as the best work that demonstrates the criteria of "integration." Amazingly, this book is a fast read. Goffman was the most imaginative conceptual and theoretical author I've ever read. If you don't know who he is, Google his name and read what others say about him after his death. "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life" is another excellent learning experience.
Madgie Hunt, EdD
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| Assigning to students in Social Deviance | 2008-09-25 | 3 / 5 |
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| 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 | 2008-03-12 | 5 / 5 |
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| 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 | 2007-09-21 | 5 / 5 |
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| 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. |
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