Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity » (Reissue)

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.

Preliminary Conceptions
The Own and the Wise
Moral Career

2. Information Control and Personal Identity

The Discredited and the Discreditable
Social Information
Visibility
Personal Identity
Biography
Biographical Others
Passing
Techniques of Information Control
Covering

3. Group Alignment and Ego Identity

Ambivalence
Professional Presentations
In-Group Alignments
Out-Group Alignments
The Politics of Identity

4. The Self and Its Other

Deviations and Norms
The Normal Deviant
Stigma and Reality

5. Deviations and Deviance