"The normal and the stigmatized are not persons,……" — Erving Goffman

"The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but perspectives."

— Erving Goffman

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14 Quotes by Erving Goffman

Erving Goffman has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.
Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.
The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to…
The world, in truth, is a wedding.
Perhaps the individual is so viable a god because he can actually understand the ceremonial significance of the way he…
Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face.
Any group of persons – prisoners, primitives, pilots, or patients – develop a life of their own that becomes meaningful,…
A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which…
Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood…
All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn’t are not easy…
Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even…
And to the degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can…

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More Inspirational Quotes

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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

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