Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity — Erving Goffman

Author: Erving Goffman

Publisher: Penguin Books

Format: Paperback

Edition: Original American edition published by Prentice-Hall, 1963. Published in Pelican Books, 1968. This copy is a later Pelican reprint, with reprint years listed to 1976.

ISBN: 0140209980

Condition: Second-hand paperback. General vintage wear to cover and edges, including rubbing, marks, creasing, sticker residue/price label, spine creasing, edge wear and age toning to pages. Some scuffing and surface wear to the back cover. Binding appears intact. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

Stigma is one of Erving Goffman’s most influential works, examining how people marked as socially different manage identity, visibility and acceptance in everyday life. Drawing on case studies, autobiography and social observation, Goffman explores the encounters between “normal” and “stigmatized” people, and how identity can be concealed, negotiated, exposed or challenged.