Social identity 2026-10-24
The aspect of a person's self-understanding associated with group memberships and their significance. A common social identity can coexist with meaningful subgroup identities.
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.