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Situating stigma: Accounting for deviancy, difference and categorial relations.

Robin James Smith¹, Paul Atkinson¹, Rhiannon Evans¹

¹School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.

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Keywords:

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Area of Science:

Social Sciences
Sociology
Social Psychology

Background:

Contemporary social scientific concepts of stigma often deviate from Erving Goffman's original formulations.
Existing research frequently overlooks stigma as a phenomenon integral to the interaction order.
The concept of stigma is often applied without fully appreciating its roots in social interaction.

Purpose of the Study:

To critique the contemporary social scientific application and misapplication of the concept of stigma.
To re-examine Goffman's foundational ideas on stigma within the context of interaction order.
To analyze how stigma functions as an analytic gloss for social relations, difference, deviance, and degradation.

Main Methods:

A critical analysis of Erving Goffman's early work on stigma.
Examination of both social scientific and lay uses of the stigma concept.
Case studies focusing on care-experienced young children and self-harm to illustrate conceptual applications.

Main Results:

Goffman's concept of stigma is often treated outside its interactional context.
Stigma serves as an analytic gloss for observable social relations and categorizations of difference, deviance, and degradation.
Shared categorization practices and logics underpin both social scientific and lay uses of stigma, often obscured in theoretical treatments.

Conclusions:

Understanding stigma requires appreciating its role within the interaction order.
Attention to stigma in care settings should focus on the conditions that enable its use as a sense-making device.
Re-emphasizing the interactional basis of stigma can clarify its application in social contexts.