In July 2018, I was in the fortunate position, as the vice president of the Society for the Study
of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI) and a member of the board of the European SSSI, to organize …

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 …

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 …

Starting from Goffman's classic account on stigma, this entry describes different perspectives
on the formation and maintenance of stigma through cognitive, individual, and institutional …

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

The stigma concept has been tremendously successful one. Before Goffman's influential
book only a handful of papers used the term in the abstract or title of a paper—in 2020 there …

In this article, we offer discursive psychology as a qualitative approach for the examination of
stigma in mental health. Discursive psychology aims to closely examine conversational and …

Much of the sociological and psychological literature on stigma focuses on the individual as
the central unit of analysis, with little if any discussion devoted to the sociohistorical context …

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 …

Definitions and theoretical models of the stigma construct have gradually progressed from
an individualistic focus towards an emphasis on stigma's social aspects. Building on other …