It has been 50 years since the publication of Goffman's influential work Stigma: Notes on the
Management of Spoiled Identity. This special issue celebrates Goffman's contribution with …

Stigmas pervade organizational life. A stigma is a discrediting social evaluation that
devalues an individual or group. We review research on stigmatized work and stigmatized …

Drawing from Goffman's original observations on stigma and the consequences of
interactions between the stigmatized and supportive or stigmatizing audiences, we conduct …

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 …

Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, research on stigma has continued. Building
on conceptual and empirical work, the recent period clarifies new types of stigmas …

We began this volume with the two basic questions: What is stigma and why does stigma
remain? Because stigmas mirror culture and society, they are in constant flux, and therefore …

Social science research on stigma has grown dramatically over the past two decades,
particularly in social psychology, where researchers have elucidated the ways in which …

This book is about stigma, a topic that is both elusive and perplexing. Yet stigma is an
everyday phenomenon, partially known to everyone who even temporarily slips beyond 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 …

The author of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life analyzes a person's feelings about
himself and his relationship to people society calls “normal.” Stigma is an illuminating …