When persons are present to one another they can function not merely as physical instruments but also as communicative ones. This possibility, no less than the physical one, is fateful for everyone concerned and in every society appears to come… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
The term stigma and its synonyms conceal a double perspective: does the stigmatized individual assume his differentness is known about already or is evident… — Erving Goffman Copy Share
The routines of social intercourse in established settings allow us to deal with anticipated others without special attention or thought. — Erving Goffman Copy Share
“In reviewing his own moral career, the stigmatized individual may single out and retrospectively elaborate experiences which serve for him to account for his… — Erving Goffman Copy Share
“When an individual becomes over-involved in a topic of conversation, others are drawn from the talk to the talker. One man's eagerness is another… — Erving Goffman Copy Share
“The more there is about the individual that deviates in an undesirable direction from what might have been expected to be true of him,… — Erving Goffman Copy Share
The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it… — Erving Goffman Copy Share
The stigmatized individual is asked to act so as to imply neither that his burden is heavy nor that bearing it has made him… — Erving Goffman Copy Share
There is a close meshing with the ritual properties of persons and with the egocentric forms of territoriality. — Erving Goffman Copy Share
“The act of staring is a thing which one does not ordinarily do to another human being; it seems to put the object stared… — Erving Goffman Copy Share
All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn’t are not easy to specify — Erving Goffman Copy Share
“Morning and lunchtime are times when anyone can appear alone almost anywhere without this giving evidence of how the person is faring in the… — Erving Goffman Copy Share
“Although the pictures shown here cannot be taken as representative of gender behavior in real life... one can probably make a significant negative statement… — Erving Goffman Copy Share
“...the issue becomes not whether a person has experience with a stigma of his own, because he has, but rather how many varieties he… — Erving Goffman Copy Share
A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters is the… — Erving Goffman Copy Share
