Folk devil
id:
folk-devil-172-1254721
title:
Folk devil
text:
Folk devil is a person or group of people who are portrayed in folklore or the media as outsiders and deviant, and who are blamed for crimes or other sorts of social problems. The pursuit of folk devils frequently intensifies into a mass movement that is called a moral panic. When a moral panic is in full swing, the folk devils are the subject of loosely organized but pervasive campaigns of hostility through gossip and the spreading of urban legends. The mass media sometimes get in on the act or
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
A person or group of people who are portrayed in folklore or the media as outsiders and deviant
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_devil
date created:
2004-01-22T18:13:41Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T16:39:38Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q5464460","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5464460"}
image:
fields total:
13
integrity:
15