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Temporarily out of stock
Title: Stigma
Author: GOFFMAN ERVING
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 02/08/2022
Imprint: PENGUIN CLASSIC
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active
New to Penguin Modern Classics, one of the most important works ever written on the problem of social stigma
In this groundbreaking work, acclaimed sociologist Erving Goffman examines how society treats those who it considers abnormal. Forced to adjust their social identities from situation to situation, Goffman analyses the variety of strategies that stigmatised individuals deploy to deal with the rejection of others, as well as the complex image of themselves they subsequently project.
Relying extensively on biography and the lived experience of those who have found themselves on the edges of society, Goffman lays out the ways in which stigma dramatically alters the way the person affected feels about themselves, and the ways in which it can often violently shatter their relationships with ‘normal’ people.
ISBN: 9780241548011
Pages: 176