Before revision: Following the theory of Goffman for nonperson treatment as a technique of diminishing the social status of a person, Roscoe Scarborough applies it to inequal treatment of contingent faculty in American higher education Nonperson Treatment in Higher Education: The Case of Contingent Faculty and Jon Frederickson and James F. Rooney do the same for free-lance musicians.The Free-Lance Musician as A Type of Non-Person: An Extension of the Concept of Non-Personhood See also capitis deminutio civil death unperson from Nineteen Eighty-Four: a person who has been executed or has fallen out of favor; whose entire history has been erased.
After revision: Chapter 7 of the book Absentees: On Variously Missing Persons by Daniel Heller-Roazen contains a discussion of Erving Goffman’s work on social participation and exclusion, in particular, the concept of "nonperson treatment".Daniel Heller-Roazen, Absentees: On Variously Missing Persons, 2021, Book reviewFollowing the theory of Goffman for nonperson treatment as a technique of diminishing the social status of a person, Roscoe Scarborough applies it to inequal treatment of contingent faculty in American higher education Nonperson Treatment in Higher Education: The Case of Contingent Faculty and Jon Frederickson and James F. Rooney do the same for free-lance musicians.The Free-Lance Musician as A Type of Non-Person: An Extension of the Concept of Non-Personhood See also capitis deminutio civil death unperson from Nineteen Eighty-Four: a person who has been executed or has fallen out of favor; whose entire history has been erased.