The topic of stigma came to the attention of modern-day behav ioral science in 1963 through
Erving Goffman's book with the engaging title, Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled …

Stigma is not a self-evident phenomenon but like all concepts has a history. The conceptual
understanding of stigma which underpins most sociological research has its roots in the …

BOOK R STIGCMA: NoTEs ON TIIE MAI. NAGENIENT OF SI-OILED IDENTITY. By Erving
Goffman. Englewood Cliffs, Ness Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1963. 147 pp. Cloth, $4.50; paper …

Since the publication in 1963 of Goffman's book, Stigma: Notes on the Management of
Spoiled Identity the use of stigma concepts has grown enormously. For scores of …

We thank Trish Devine for nominating our work as a modern classic and Ralph Erber and
Lenny Martin for giving us this opportunity to reflect on how these ideas originated and …

Psychological research has provided essential insights into how stigma operates to
disadvantage those who are targeted by it. At the same time, stigma research has been …

Stigma has been and continues to be a topic of interest to people from a wide variety of
disciplines with many different perspectives. If there is one point upon which scholars from …

Goffman (1963) believes that the stigma notion can provide a unifying perspective in the
field of intergroup relations. But except for his treatment, the term stigma has never been …

A social stigma is defined as a negative attribute or identity that devalues a person within a
particular context or culture (Goffman, 1963; Jones et al., 1984). In an attempt to define the …

Stimulated by the pioneering work of Goffman (1963), research into the causes and
consequences of stigma has proliferated over the past five decades. Progress has been …