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" The stigmatized individual tends to hold the same beliefs about identity that we do ... the standards he has incorporated from the wider society equip him to be intimately alive to what others see as his failing, inevitably causing him, if only for moments,... "
Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity - Page 7
by Erving Goffman - 2009 - 162 pages
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The Existential Self in Society

Joseph A. Kotarba, Andrea Fontana - Social Science - 1987 - 256 pages
...desire was to be treated as an ordinary person. Goffman states the problem very well when he says that "The stigmatized individual tends to hold the same beliefs about identity that we do. His deepest feeling about what he is may be his sense of being a 'normal person,' a human being like...
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Across the Boundaries of Race and Class: An Exploration of Work and Family ...

Bonnie Thornton Dill - Business & Economics - 1994 - 172 pages
...failure to recognize the employee's personal needs and concerns, their humanity. According to Goffman: The stigmatized individual tends to hold the same...his sense of being a "normal person," a human being just like anyone else, a person therefore who deserves a fair chance and a fair break.12 While not...
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Deviance: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach

Nancy J. Herman, Nancy J. Herman-Kinney - Social Science - 1995 - 648 pages
...due to their perception of mental illness as a stigmatizing attribute. As Goffinan (1963:78) stated: 'The stigmatized individual tends to hold the same beliefs about identity that we do. His deepest feeling about what he is may be his sense of being a 'normal person,' a human being like...
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The Disability Studies Reader

Lennard J. Davis - Political Science - 1997 - 472 pages
...Ametica at ptesent, howevet, sepamte systems of honot seem to be on the declme. The stigmatited mdividual tends to hold the same beliefs about identity that we do; this is a pivotal fact. His deepest feelmgs about what he is may be his sense of bemg a "notmal petson," a human bemg like anyone else,...
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The Body and Social Theory

Chris Shilling - Social Science - 2003 - 252 pages
...facing an unaccepting world' (Goffman, 1990 [1963]: 12-13, 31). As Goffman argues, (1990 [1963]: 17-18) the 'stigmatized individual tends to hold the same beliefs about identity that we do ... the standards he has incorporated from the wider society equip him to be intimately alive to what...
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Untouchable Citizens: Dalit Movements and Democratization in Tamil Nadu

Hugo Gorringe - Business & Economics - 2005 - 402 pages
...similar point when he asserts that stigmatised individuals share the norms of the 'normal' people. The stigmatized individual tends to hold the same...about identity that we do; this is a pivotal fact' (1970: 17). On being made to feel different or 'other', 'shame becomes a central possibility, arising...
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Behind Ghetto Walls

Lee Rainwater - 594 pages
...course, given the world as it is and as they see it, lies with substitute games. As Goffman observes: The stigmatized individual tends to hold the same beliefs about identity that we do ... The standards he has incorporated from the wider society equip him to be intimately alive to what...
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The Mark of Shame: Stigma of Mental Illness and an Agenda for Change

Stephen P. Hinshaw - Psychology - 2006 - 352 pages
...the eyes of the perceiver or in the response of the deviant individual? Goffman responds as follows: The stigmatized individual tends to hold the same...about identity that we do; this is a pivotal fact. . . . The standards he has incorporated from the wider society equip him to be intimately alive to...
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Becoming an Unwed Mother: A Sociological Accounty

Prudence Mors Rains - 220 pages
...concerns and stage of sexual activity in which pregnancy is maximally risked. Becoming an Unwed Mother The stigmatized individual tends to hold the same beliefs about identity that we do ... the standards he has incorporated from the wider society equip him to be intimately alive to what...
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