Ebook: Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity

Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Dedication; Chapter 1: Stigma and Social Identity; Preliminary Conceptions; The Own and the Wise; Moral Career; Chapter 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; Chapter 3: Group Alignment and Ego Identity; Ambivalence; Professional Presentations; In Group Alignments; Out-Group Alignments; The Politics of Identity; Chapter 4: The Self and its Other; Deviations and Norms