Erving Goffman Quotes

By Definition, Of Course, We Believe The Person With A Stigma Is Not Quite Human. On This Assumption We Exercise Varieties Of Discrimination, Through Which We Effectively, If Often Unthinkingly, Reduce His Life Chances. We Construct A Stigma-theory, An Ideology To Explain His Inferiority And Account For The Danger He Represents, Sometimes Rationalizing An Animosity Based On Other Differences, Such As Those Of Social Class.

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