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Stigma : den avvikandes roll och identitet

av Erving Goffman

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From the author ofThe Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Stigma is analyzes a person's feelings about himself and his relationship to people whom society calls "normal." 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. Physically deformed people, ex-mental patients, drug addicts, prostitutes, or those ostracized for other reasons must constantly strive to adjust to their precarious social identities. Their image of themselves must daily confront and be affronted by the image which others reflect back to them. Drawing extensively on autobiographies and case studies, sociologist Erving Goffman analyzes the stigmatized person's feelings about himself and his relationship to "normals" He explores the variety of strategies stigmatized individuals employ to deal with the rejection of others, and the complex sorts of information about themselves they project. In Stigma the interplay of alternatives the stigmatized individual must face every day is brilliantly examined by one of America's leading social analysts.… (mer)
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Finished this while locked out of GR due to some no doubt well-intentioned addition of captcha software to the login process, so initial impressions were not captured.

This is not a scientific book, nor is it an analysis. As the title and introduction both indicate, these essays are notes or thoughts in response to Goffman's various readings on stigmatized individuals. These would be referred to as "marginalized" now, and 21st-century readers may take issue with some of the groups identified as such. That would miss the point, though: what Goffman has noticed is that the strategies for dealing with a stigma are similar across different communities or stigmas or what have you, and it is these strategies that interest him. What also intrigues him is the gradient nature of stigma, or as someone who spends too much time online might say, how stigma is a spectrum: the criteria that define the "normal" are very, very narrow, and every person is guaranteed to pass out of it at some point in their life (too young, too old, unemployed, etc). So in a very real sense, everybody is stigmatized at some point in their lives, and the stategies they have adopted for coping with this are similar to, or even learned from, those who are stimagtized for their entire lives.

It's a good book, worth reading. Other GR reviewers seem hung up on the fact that it's not written like a self-help book. Let's be honest: if you find this book to be dry or difficult reading , you're not going to make it very far past the sort of thing offered in airport newsstands. Goffman is readable, he makes a few amusing points some of which might be generously construed as "jokes", and he neatly summarizes information or episodes from multiple sources (synthesizes, as a friend used to describe it, and really that is what social scientists do). What Goffman does *not* do is start from a premise and work towards a definite conclusion, and this can make the book feel pointless or meandering: but as the title says, these are notes, not a Theory. ( )
  mkfs | Aug 13, 2022 |
Goffman examines the issues surrounding social and personal identity of the stigmatized, and how this contrasts with, interacts with, and overlaps with the social and personal identity of the “normals”. The chapters take us through various relevant areas, including information control, personal identity, group alignment, ego identity, self and others, and deviance. Various stigmas are discussed throughout the book as examples, including mental health issues, criminal backgrounds, physical or cosmetic deformities, blindness, deafness, illiteracy, sexuality, and social and educational background.
Goffman had various theories that he brings into this work from other areas of his writings and researches, including the idea of “personas”, and the “dramaturgic approach” to social reality. The latter of which makes the analogy of being “on”, ie “on stage”, where we act a specific character that is not really us, when put in certain situations, and relax only into being our real selves when with others who we know well and trust to understand us. This may be for a number of reasons: the celebrity does it to retain a level of privacy around their personal identity and social relations and distance these from public consumption, the (potential) son in law does it to keep on-side with his in-laws, the employee does it to present himself favorably to his boss or colleagues, and of course here the stigmatized (or stigmatizable), discredited (or discreditable) do it to either hide their socially unaccepted feature (or history), in order to relieve social tensions and live an easier or more accepted life in public.

Goffman is an entertaining, clear, and engaging writer, who had interests in various areas of psychology, and I will be looking out for some of his other works in the future. What he makes clear here is that stigma is very much a spectrum, and few of us will go through our lives without ever being in a situation as some point where we are the stigmatised. Indeed it is very much relative on environment, and what makes us accepted in one place and time may very well be a stigma somewhere else. Appreciating this fact allows us to better understand the difficulties of those who are more obviously and continuously stigmatized, and the adaptations they have to make to their social interactions in order to manage their identity and social relations. ( )
  P_S_Patrick | Apr 27, 2021 |
Small but dense book
  Leslie.Claussen | Jul 20, 2018 |
"Where such repair is possible, what often results is not the acquisition of fully normal status, but a transformation of self from someone with a particular blemish into someone with a record of having corrected a particular blemish." (p. 9)
  Skews.Me | Oct 22, 2017 |
In many ways the book shows its age. Some of the language--for instance, using the word "normal" to describe non-stigmatized people (implying others are "not normal") sounds odd and--to use a word that wasn't available to Goffman when he wrote--"ableist" today. As is often the case for me when reading sociology books, I was frequently irritated or critical of the way this author, like others in this field, makes sweeping generalizations about how people behave. The beauty and complexity of individual experience is smoothed over; the only way sociologists seem to write about "society" is by lumping everyone together into a bland wad of humanity and then write about how alike we all are. What I'm writing here all sounds highly critical of the book, and I have to say I spent much of my time as I read in a state of actively disliking what I was reading on the page. And yet it challenged my thinking and made me re-examine my notions about stigma and identity and even challenged how I thought such things should be written about, which are all great things.

This book makes an interesting contrast with Andrew Solomon's "Far From the Tree," which deals with the same topic--how society treats people who belong to marginalized and stigmatized groups--but Solomon builds his arguments by piling on one unique anecdote after another in a beautiful mosaic, a book that celebrates individuality rather than erasing it. ( )
  poingu | Jan 29, 2015 |
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From the author ofThe Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Stigma is analyzes a person's feelings about himself and his relationship to people whom society calls "normal." 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. Physically deformed people, ex-mental patients, drug addicts, prostitutes, or those ostracized for other reasons must constantly strive to adjust to their precarious social identities. Their image of themselves must daily confront and be affronted by the image which others reflect back to them. Drawing extensively on autobiographies and case studies, sociologist Erving Goffman analyzes the stigmatized person's feelings about himself and his relationship to "normals" He explores the variety of strategies stigmatized individuals employ to deal with the rejection of others, and the complex sorts of information about themselves they project. In Stigma the interplay of alternatives the stigmatized individual must face every day is brilliantly examined by one of America's leading social analysts.

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