Stigma Notes on Management: Notes on the Management of a Spoiled Identity

1. Stigma and Social Identity

Preliminary Conceptions

The Own and the Wise

Moral Career

2. Information Control and Personal Identity

The Discredited and the Discreditable

Social Information

Visibility

Personal Identity

Biography

Biographical Others

Passing

Techniques of Information Control

Covering

3. Group Alignment and Ego Identity

Ambivalence

Professional Presentations

In-Group Alignments

Out-Group Alignments

The Politics of Identity

4. The Self and Its Other

Deviations and Norms

The Normal Deviant

Stigma and Reality

5. Deviations and Deviance