DESTIGMATIZING THE STIGMA OF SELF IN GARFINKEL AND GOFFMAN ACCOUNTS OF NORMAL APPEARANCES

Authors
TRAVERS A
Citation
A. Travers, DESTIGMATIZING THE STIGMA OF SELF IN GARFINKEL AND GOFFMAN ACCOUNTS OF NORMAL APPEARANCES, Philosophy of the social sciences, 24(1), 1994, pp. 5-40
Citations number
60
Categorie Soggetti
Philosophy,Philosophy
Journal title
Philosophy of the social sciences → ACNP
ISSN journal
00483931
Volume
24
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
5 - 40
Database
ISI
SICI code
0048-3931(1994)24:1<5:DTSOSI>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
Accounts of normal appearances in Goffman's Stigma and Garfinkel's ''P assing and the Managed Achievement of Sex Status in an Intersexed Pers on'' are compared. It is found that in these two classic interactionis t texts the formulation of stigma requires the production of normal ap pearances that occlude interactants' selves. In effect, selves are sti gmatized. The essay reads Goffman and Garfinkel in terms of each other , and in certain emergent paradoxes rediscovers the missing (stigmatiz ed) selves.