Salvaging decency: Mobile home residents' strategies of managing the stigma of "trailer" living

Qualitative Sociology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 399-428

  Kusenbach, Margarethe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion management; Goffman; Identity; Mobile homes; Stigma

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949267127     PISSN: 01620436     EISSN: 15737837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11133-009-9139-z     Document Type: Article

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