Book, Stigma Notes on Manipulation Deteriorated Identity 4/81[LS]

This impressive, vehement and lucid book re-examines the concepts of stigma and social identity, group alignment and personal identity, self and other, control of information, deviance and deviant behavior, focusing on all aspects of situation of the stigmatized person: from bohemians to delinquents, from prostitutes to jazz musicians, from gypsies to beach scoundrels, from beggars to those considered ?engaged in a kind of collective denial of the social order?, those who make up the ?community of the stigmatized ?, everyone has, in this book, their image humanly explained in the light of social anthropology.