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" Thus, the demands we make might better be called demands made "in effect," and the character we impute to the individual might better be seen as an imputation made in potential retrospect — a characterization "in effect," a virtual social identity.... "
Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity - Page 2
by Erving Goffman - 2009 - 162 pages
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Social Problems and Public Policy: Deviance and Liberty

Lee Rainwater - Social Science - 1974 - 454 pages
...physical disorder. Today the term is widely used in something like the original literal sense, but it applied more to the disgrace itself than to the bodily...an attribute that makes him different from others in the category of persons available for him to be, and of a less desirable kind — in the extreme,...
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Living on the Edge: The Realities of Welfare in America

Mark R. Rank - Family & Relationships - 1994 - 284 pages
...with regard to welfare. Stigma and Welfare Use Irving Goffman defined stigma in the following way: While the stranger is present before us, evidence...an attribute that makes him different from others in the category of persons available for him to be, and of a less desirable kind—in the extreme,...
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Deviance: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach

Nancy J. Herman, Nancy J. Herman-Kinney - Social Science - 1995 - 648 pages
...character we impute to the individual might better be seen as an imputation made in potential retrospect-a characterization "in effect," a virtual social identity....an attribute that makes him different from others in the category of persons available for him to be, and of a less desirable kind — in the extreme,...
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Homicide: The Hidden Victims: A Resource for Professionals

Deborah Spungen - Education - 1998 - 300 pages
...relationship of Fowlkes's "spoiled identity" to the lack of understanding of the loss to the co-victim: While the stranger is present before us, evidence...an attribute that makes him different from others in the same category of persons available for him to be, and of a less desirable kind — in the extreme,...
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Disability, Difference, Discrimination: Perspectives on Justice in Bioethics ...

Anita Silvers, David T. Wasserman, Mary Briody Mahowald - Law - 1998 - 358 pages
...identity" to describe the categorization and treatment of people who depart from the norm in certain ways: While the stranger is present before us, evidence...an attribute that makes him different from others . . . and of a less desirable kind. . . . He is thus reduced in our minds from a whole and usual person...
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Enabling Environments: Measuring the Impact of Environment on Disability and ...

Edward Steinfeld, G. Scott Danford - Architecture - 1999 - 446 pages
...we have, transforming them into normative expectations, into righteously presented demands — When the stranger is present before us, evidence can arise...an attribute that makes him different from others in the category of persons available for him to be. and of a less desirable kind — in the extreme,...
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The Body: Critical Concepts in Sociology, Volume 1

Andrew Blaikie, Mike Hepworth, Mary Holmes - Philosophy - 2003 - 470 pages
...imputation made in potential retrospect a characterization 'in effect'. a virtual social iilentity. The category and attributes he could in fact be proved...arise of his possessing an attribute that makes him dilferent from others in the category of persons available for him to be. and of a less desirable kind...
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The Disability Studies Reader

Lennard J. Davis - Political Science - 2006 - 472 pages
...stranger comes into our presence, then, first appearances are likely to enable us to anticipate hxs category and attributes, his "social identity" —...an attribute that makes him different from others in the category of persons available for him to be, and of a less desirable kind — in the extreme,...
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Race and Sport: The Struggle for Equality on and Off the Field

Charles Kenyatta Ross - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 252 pages
...moral status of the signified (Harrison, working paper). Goffman explains this framework by noting: While the stranger is present before us, evidence...an attribute that makes him different from others in the category of persons available for him to be, and of a less desirable kind — in the extreme,...
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