 Stigma: notes on the management of spoiled identity by Erving Goffman

Original edition: 1963, Prentice-Hall. Publisher page for a later edition: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Stigma/Erving-Goffman/9780671622442

The publisher's excerpt reproduces the relevant argument in the opening chapter, Stigma and Social identity. The solution analyzes the passage identified by this examination without reproducing it.