- Identity (Psychology), Prejudices, Social adjustment, Stigma (Social psychology)
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Spare, classical in form, cool and earnest.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Erving Goffman
- First published
- June 1998
- Pages
- 171
- Publisher
- Prentice-Hall, Gdan skie Wydawnictwo Psychologiczne, J. Aronson
- Editions
- 27
- Language
- English, German, Spanish, Polish
- ISBN
- 9780140552454
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First sentence
“The Greeks, who were apparently strong on visual aids, originated the term stigma to refer to bodily signs designed to expose something unusual and bad about the moral status of the signifier.”
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