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Erving Goffman's Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity (1963) is frequently the first book that students read independently on their journey into social theory. Goffman's Stigma is reviewed, with special attention to stigma v. normal social identity, the own and the wise, the discredited versus the discreditable, problems of awkward interaction between stigmatized and normals, problems of information control, passing, normal deviance, and the politics of identity. After reviewing Goffman's Stigma, the lecture broadens out to larger concerns about the social structures that generate stigma. Sartre's Anti-Semite and Jew, Lemert's Paranoia and Group Exclusion, Abdi Kusow's Contesting Stigma, Michele Lamont's Addressing Recognition Gaps and Destigmatization, and Diedre Royster's Race and the Invisible Hand all explain the larger, structural determinations of stigmatized identities.
Dan Krier
Sociology
Iowa State University
Erving Goffman
Sociological Theory
Stigma
Identity and the Self
Social Inequalities