Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity
Стигма: заметки по управлению испорченной идентичностью
1969-09-01
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CONTENTS 1. Stigma and Social Identity Preliminary Conceptions The Own and the Wise Moral Career 2. Information Control and Personal Identity The Discredited and the Discreditable Social Information Visibility Personal Identity Biography Biographical Others Passing Techniques of Information Control Covering 3. Group Alignment and Ego Identity Ambivalence Professional Presentations In-Group Alignments Out-Group Alignments The Politics of Identity 4. The Self and Its Other Deviations and Norms The Normal Deviant Stigma and Reality 5. Deviations and Deviance
Key Findings
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Biographical accounts and 'biographical others' play a role in sustaining personal identity amid stigma.
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Group alignments (in-group and out-group) influence ego identity, producing ambivalence and political dimensions of identity management.
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Information control strategies (passing, covering, managing visibility) are central to maintaining personal identity when discreditable or discredited.
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People with stigmatized identities follow a 'moral career' involving stages of social adjustment and identity work.
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Stigma constructs norms distinguishing the 'normal' from the 'deviant', affecting perceptions of reality and responses to deviations.
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Stigma shapes social identity through distinctions between the 'own' (stigmatized group) and the 'wise' (sympathetic others).
Research Object
Stigma as a social phenomenon affecting spoiled identity
Research Subject
Management and dynamics of spoiled identity, including information control, visibility, passing, group alignment, moral career, and relations between self and others
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