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Erving Goffman – Stigma (Notes on identity) - Sociology and Everyday Life (week 8)
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Notes on week 8 of the module Sociology and Everyday Life. This session looked at stigma. Topics covered: Erving Goffman – Stigma, Social Identity, Types of Stigma, Managing Stigma, Treatment by Normals, Responses of the stigmatised, Interactions between normal and stigmatised, Sympathetic Others...

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Module: Sociology and Everyday Life


Week 8: Goffman – Stigma (Notes on identity)


Social Identity
 First impressions – we try to come across in the most positive way that we
can. We present an idealised version of ourselves.
 Social identity – social class itself is not enough. It’s also about our manners
as well.
 Goffman divides social identity into two components:
- Virtual social identity
- Actual social identity
 Stigma arises when there is a contradiction between what we are and what
we ought to be. Example: a religious leader who is an alcoholic. They should
be sober and responsible.
 It’s not enough to be a particular kind of person – you’ve got to perform it.
When you are not able to back up your demands to be seen as a particular
kind of person, that’s when the stigma is produced. For Goffman, it doesn’t
matter what kind of stigma that is.


Types of Stigma
What is considered to be a stigma changes over time.
 Bodily – people with a disability or disfigurement.
 Character – Goffman was more interested in character stigma. Example:
being gay; that you have spent time in prison. These people are careful about
who they tell about their stigma.
 Tribal/group/family identity

Two forms of stigmatized people:
 The discredited – the stigma is known about such as bodily stigmas.
 The discreditable – this applies to character stigmas. They often try to pass off
as normal.


Stigma
 The word stigma comes from the ancient Greeks.
 In some social interactions, we might be the normal, but in other social
interactions, we might be the stigmatised. It depends on the context that the
interaction takes place in.

Stigma – Example

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