Stigma

By:

"Goffman, Erving"

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: "Middlesex, Eng."; Penguin Book; 1984Description: 174 pISBN:

140209980

Subject(s):

Psychology

DDC classification:

157 GOF

Summary: The dwarf, the disfigured, the blind man, the homosexual, the ex-mental patient and the member of a racial or religious minority al share one decisive characteristic; they are all socially abnormal', and therefore in danger of being considered less than human. Whether ordinary people react hu rejection, by over-hearty acceptance or by plain embarrassment, their main concern is with such an individual's deviance, not with the whole of his personality.

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The dwarf, the disfigured, the blind man, the homosexual, the ex-mental patient and the member of a racial or religious minority al share one decisive characteristic; they are all socially abnormal', and therefore in danger of being considered less than human. Whether ordinary people react hu rejection, by over-hearty acceptance or by plain embarrassment, their main concern is with such an individual's deviance, not with the whole of his personality.

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