Spectres of Goffman: Impression management in the Irish welfare space

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dc.contributor.authorWhelan, Joe
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-07T12:25:59Z
dc.date.available2021-01-07T12:25:59Z
dc.date.issued2020-12-31
dc.date.updated2021-01-07T12:02:42Z
dc.description.abstractThe Goffmanian thesis of stigma occurring as an aspect of “spoiled identity” has arguably provided the dominant theoretical understanding of social stigma over the past half century. Yet, there have also been strong critiques of Goffman’s thesis of stigma which range from concerns with the micro-personal nature of his work to question marks over the corpus of materials used by Goffman when originally theorizing stigma. Recent scholarly contributions have theorized a more structural understanding of the role and function of stigma and this, in turn, has arguably forced the question of whether or not Goffman’s thesis of stigma has now become redundant in terms of its application in the social sciences. This paper intends to explore this question by offering a juxtaposition of the theoretical and the empirical. To meet this task, the paper first engages in a theoretical discussion of the Goffmanian thesis of social stigma. Crucially, however, original research, conducted in Ireland, is also presented. This empirical material shows that, despite the very valid concerns with Goffman’s theory of stigma, much of his analysis with respect to impression management is borne out in lived experience. In doing so, aspects of the Goffmanian thesis of impression management as a response to the potential for stigma are affirmed thus demonstrating the continuing applicability of this theoretical strand. New understandings of impression management are also advanced.en
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dc.identifier.citationWhelan, J. (2020) 'Spectres of Goffman: Impression management in the Irish welfare space', Journal of Applied Social Science. doi: 10.1177/1936724420983578en
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1936724420983578en
dc.identifier.eissn1937-0245
dc.identifier.issn1936-7244
dc.identifier.journaltitleJournal of Applied Social Scienceen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/10873
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationsen
dc.rights© 2020, the Author. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of the following article: Whelan, J. (2020) 'Spectres of Goffman: Impression management in the Irish welfare space', Journal of Applied Social Science. doi: 10.1177/1936724420983578. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1177/1936724420983578en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectStigmaen
dc.subjectWelfareen
dc.subjectImpression managementen
dc.subjectGoffmanen
dc.subjectIrelanden
dc.titleSpectres of Goffman: Impression management in the Irish welfare spaceen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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