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