“In reviewing his own moral career, the stigmatized individual may single out and retrospectively elaborate experiences which serve for him to account for his coming to the beliefs and practices that he now has regarding his own kind and normals.” — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
“Here I want to stress that perception of losing one’s mind is based on culturally derived and socially ingrained stereotypes as to the significance of symptoms such as hearing voices, losing temporal and spatial orientation, and sensing that one is… — 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 Image
The routines of social intercourse in established settings allow us to deal with anticipated others without special attention or thought. — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
The stigmatized individual is asked to act so as to imply neither that his burden is heavy nor that bearing it has made him different from us; at the same time he must keep himself at that remove from us which assures our painlessly being able to confirm this belief about him. Put differently, he is advised to reciprocate naturally… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
