Stigma: notes on the management of spoiled identity

Om boken

The dwarf, the disfigured, the blind man, the homosexual, the ex-mental patient and the member of a racial or religious minority all share one characteristic: they are all socially "abnormal", and therefore in danger of being considered less then human. Whether ordinary people react by rejection, by over-hearty acceptance or by plain embarressment, their main concern is with such an individual's deviance, not with the whole of his personality. "Stigma" is a study of situations where normal and a...Vis mer

Andre utgaver

Stigma

Pocket · 2004

Stigma

Pocket · 1965