Goffman, Erving, — Stigma: notes on the management of spoiled identity.

NJ, Prentice Hall, (1963). 22nd ptg. G PB. People unable to conform to society's "normal" standards & strategies employed by them. Book store stamp fep, edge wear. The physically deformed, ex-mental patients, drugs addicts, prostitutes, ugly are constantly forced to adjust to their precarious social identities, precarious becausee their image of themselves must daily confront & be affronted by the image which others reflect back to them.