TY - BOOK AU - Goffman,Erving TI - Stigma: notes on the management of spoiled identity T2 - Psichology SN - 0-14-012475-6 PY - 1990/// CY - London PB - Penguin Books KW - Identidad (Psicología) KW - Identidad colectiva KW - Marginación Social N2 - The dwarf, the disfigured, the blind man, the homosexual, the ex-mental patient and the member of a racial or religious minority all share one characteristic: they are all socially "abnormal", and therefore in danger of being considered less then human. Whether ordinary people react by rejection, by over-hearty acceptance or by plain embarressment, their main concern is with such an individual's deviance, not with the whole of his personality. "Stigma" is a study of situations where normal and abnormal meet, and of the ways in which a stigmatized person can develop a more positive social and personal identity ER -