“For over a decade now in the literature of social psychology there has been good work on stigma - the situation of the individual who is disqualified from full social acceptance. This work has been added to from time to time by useful clinical studies, and its framework applied to ever new categories of persons”

—  Erving Goffman , book Stigma

Preface, lead paragraph
1950s-1960s, Stigma, 1963

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Sociologist, writer, academic 1922–1982

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