Definition of folk devil in English:

folk devil

noun

词汇	folk devil
释义	Definition of folk devil in English: folk devil noun A person or thing held to be a bad influence on society. 对社会有恶劣影响的人（或事） the strikers had been identified and pilloried as the new folk devils Example sentencesExamples Its subject was the eponymous; the baseball capped, Burberry clad, gold jewellery bedecked folk devils that walk down every high street in Britain. This would be thinking about folk devils as some way equivalent to Agamben's conception of homo sacer. She says, ‘The goal of the moral panic is then to identify, restrain, and punish those folk devils.’ And the Jersey driver remains a prominent folk devil all over the Northeast: bumptious, heedless, hostile and barely competent. Yet when we think of child abuse, folk devils like them jump to the fore. The second involved a perhaps more familiar press folk devil - a girl of 12 becoming pregnant and deciding to keep the baby. Thus last year's folk devil becomes next year's pantomime dame. But this ‘conservative’ genre has consistently explored social mores, popular concerns and contemporary folk devils.
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