THE PHYSICAL BODY IN SOCIAL INTERACTION - BETWEEN STIGMATISATION AND ACCEPTANCE

• Authors: Jakubowska H.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The starting point for this article is Erving Goffman's concept of stigma. Referring to her own surveys, the authoress analyses Tseëlon's claim that the physical body can be treated as a stigma. She considers which aspects of the body - e.g. the natural odour, old age, illness or the absence of depilation - stigmatises a person most, and in which social groups. The explanation is that it depends on different approaches to the body and treating it as inherited vs. achieved.

Keywords

EN

CONTROL OVER BODY; SIGMA; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS

Discipline

• ANTHROPOLOGY: ANTHROPOLOGY

• Publisher: Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN
• Journal: Kultura i Społeczeństwo
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 52
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 194-212
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jakubowska H.

• H. Jakubowska, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, ul. H. Wieniawskiego 1, 61-712 Poznan, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA062411