Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity Erving Goffman
Publisher: Touchstone

Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity (Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates). Language: English Released: 1986. Goffman E (1990) Stigma: Notes on the management of spoiled identity. Admin | August 16, 2012 | 24 comments |. Today i started re-reading Goffman's absolute classic text "Stigma: notes on the management of spoiled identity". When Goffman says “the normal and the stigmatized or not persons but rather perspectives,” he is saying that stigma, just like race and gender, is a socially constructed concept. See Irving Goffman, Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity (Prentice- Hall Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1966, and Pelican Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1968). GO Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity Author: Erving Goffman Type: eBook. Publisher: Touchstone Page Count: 123. It's one of those books that is simultaneoulsy hopelessly outdated and incredibly relevant. Goffman E & Best J (2005) Interaction ritual: essays in face-to-face behaviour.