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Gender, not religion, is the opiate of the masses.

In our society, defecation involves anindividual in activity which is defined as inconsistent withth...

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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

...the issue becomes not whether a person has experience with a stigma of his own, because he has, b...

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Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity

Here I want to stress that perception of losing one’s mind is based on culturally derived and social...

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Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates

individuals are concerned notwith the moral issue of realizing these standards, but withthe amoral i...

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Erving Goffman

Sociologist

Born: 1922-06-11

Died: 1982-11-19

Erving Goffman (June 11, 1922 – November 19, 1982) was a Canadian born American sociologist and writer. His major areas of study included the sociology of everyday life, social theory, social interaction, the social construction of self, social organization (framing) of experience, and particular elements of social life such as total institutions and social stigmas.More