Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity‎ by Erving Goffman

Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity by Erving Goffman 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. Will accept reasonable offers!