Stigma and Disfigurement: Putting on a Brave Face?
Patricia Skinner
The flipside to honor in medieval culture was shame. This introduces the theoretical framework explored this chapter, idea of disfigurement as stigma. Elaborated upon detail by Erving Goffman 1960s, and influential on generations sociologists historians since, stigma is a powerful analytical concept with which explore disfigurement. As points out, stigmatizing condition could be visible or invisible, product person’s own actions inflicted her him wider social group. Different categories have been proposed subsequent studies, these are used investigate range texts, illustrating contingency reports need situate them within specific contexts.
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