Situating stigma: Accounting for deviancy, difference and categorial relations.

Sacks goes on to note that all sorts of social arrangements, from conflicts and revolutions, to games, are organized in terms of two‐set classes, the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots’, and speculates that formulating social relations as a two‐set class appears to be ‘a method of doing things’ that might be significant as a device that forms ‘a basic mechanism of social control’.

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