Overview
Provides a post-Goffman account of stigma that recognises core dimensions of macro-social order and change and their impact on ordinary everyday institutions and interaction
Rethinks and reframes our understanding of the ‘insider-outsider’ dichotomy
Features four groups to illustrate this theory: migrants/refugees; the sick/disabled; the homeless; and sex workers
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About this book
This book presents a novel approach to framing the concept of stigma, and understanding why and how it functions.
Graham Scambler extends his analysis beyond common social interactionist understandings of stigma by linking experiences to the larger social structure—the political economy. A Sociology of Shame and Blame contends that stigma is being ‘weaponised’ as part of a calculated political strategy favouring capital accumulation over justice, and addresses how the shame associated with stigma has taken on the additional dimension of blame through micro-interactions.
The unique Insider-Outsider approach that Scambler harnesses draws on micro and macro social theory to identify links between the prevalence of stigma and agency, culture and structure, and will be an original and key reference point for students and scholars across the social and behavioural sciences, including, but not limited to, sociology, anthropology, psychology, public health and social policy.
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About the author
Graham Scambler is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at UCL, and Visiting Professor of Sociology at Surrey University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Sociology of Shame and Blame
Book Subtitle: Insiders Versus Outsiders
Authors: Graham Scambler
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23143-9
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23142-2Published: 11 July 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23143-9Published: 01 July 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 118
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Theory, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Social Policy