Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Spectra Books
Date Published: 1963
Description: Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Moderate corner, edge wear. Pages good, some underscore. Analyzes the feelings of social outcasts (of varied b.g. 's and reasons) toward themselves and others and how they contend w/other's perspective of themselves. 183 pages. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Date Published: 1963
Description: Good. This is a 1963 softcover. A bit of minor shelf wear to exterior. previous owner's stamp on title page. All text pages are clean and crisp with a nice secure binding. A good book overall. Daily shipping. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Touchstone Books
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780671622442ISBN:0671622447
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Minor cover, corner wear; tanning from edges of pages; no remainder mark; no writing in book; odor-free; no spine crease; binding straight, tight; ships promptly with Delivery Confirmation. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 168 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Books, Hammondsworth, England
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780140209983ISBN:0140209980
Description: 16mo. 174 page. Previous owner's name and date on 1st free endpaper. Very slight crease at lower back corner. We pack carefully & ship immediately from our private smoke-free collection. Booksellers since 1978. read more
Description: Good. 0140209980 Book shows typical wear for used book, covers have creasing and small scrapes, especially near the edges near the spine where there is some minor rubbing of the ink, binding is tight. No markings or highlighting found during a cursory search of the pages. The spoiled identity in the subtitle is that of the outcast, those who are stigmatized. This book studies the self-identity of the outcast, mental patient, drug addict, the blind and others. This 1970 work harks back to an ... read more
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. This is a Trade Paperback Book in great reading condition, edge wear, spine crease, dog-eared, cover has shelf wear, pages clean to read, tpb read more
"I read this book because I'm starting a PhD in Sociology this fall and I'd read other Goffman texts, and they had this book at Borders, so I figured it was probably a big deal in Sociology. Overall, I think Goffman uses way too many words to explain his concepts, and the concepts themselves are poorly organized. Really, it could have fit in 1/4 of the pages he used, and it was a short book to begin with. It feels like he didn't make an outline before he wrote it. Parts of it were historically socially interesting, like where he used the example of people being refused hotel rooms due to the ethnicity of their surname.
What I learned were a few keywords to use when discussing stigma, and since this guy is a big deal in Social sciences, that should help me write a paragraph or two about stigma as a socially constructed problem. He uses the terms "virtual" and "actual" identity, but I think this oversimplifies it. It's a reasonable place to start.
I'm glad I read this to see where the social science study of stigma has come from, but I'm appreciative that today we have different perspectives and frameworks with which to study stigma."
"Let me be a huge dork and start reviewing Sociology texts... I reread this last week for my dissertation project. I think an important aspect of this influential text that is often overlooked is Goffman's appreciation that the sense of 'differentness' individuals often feel in relation to others is really not a unique thing. Much stigma research focuses on extreme examples of stigmatized social identities rather than on stigma as a common experience of everyday life. You know, reviewing Sociology classics is really not fun and I don't think I"ll do it anymore."
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