Sentences with phrase «folk devil»
After WW2, Nazism was a persisting folk devil, and especially in Germany, a semi-religious dogmatism was established, that Nazism was uniquely evil and must not be compared to any other tyranny, belligerent or murderous political system.
https://politics.stackexchange.com/
The press release explains that the title «borrows... from sociologist Stanley Cohen's 1972 study Folk Devils and Moral Panics, which looked at modern society's deep - rooted fear of subcultures and the morally aberrant.»
The aggressive profileration of AGW however is very well explainable as a combination of Groupthink and Moral Panic, the «deniers» being the folk devils.
But that doesn't mean that we should react in kind and create folk devils in return.
Sure, the actions of the alarmist community have been very accurately described by Irving Janis (Groupthink), Stanley Cohen (moral panic and folk devils,) and Thomas Kuhn, (the structure of scientific revolutions), considering the tenacity to hold on to falsified hypotheses.
The Justice Gap collection considers a varied cast of contemporary folk devils: football fans, underclass «scum» and feral youth as well as the «new suspect community», Muslim youth.
Stanley Cohen, in his seminal study Folk Devils and Moral Panics (1964), defined moral panic as requiring «a condition, episode, person or group of persons» that becomes seen as «a threat to societal values and interests».
Not exact matches
Remember, folks, there's God's will, man's will, and the devil's will.
But seriously folks... So what if their owners still believe in creationism, gods and devils, heaven and hell, magical powers, Noah's ark, people rising from the dead, angels, talking snakes, and virgin births.
Because the «700 Club» folk are moderns, they take psychology and «mental health» seriously; because they are fundamentalists, they believe that the Lord of Hosts will drive out devils; they therefore pray unabashedly for both mental and physical healing.
He once dropped a bomb on a group of everyday folks, declaring that they were not the children of Abraham, but «of your father the devil.»
And smarter folks need a way to control them, so they use the devil.
«If I were the devil (please, no comment), one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible.
It is clear from the ministry of Jesus, that more than anything else, He went about casting out devils and healing folks.
start using your brain Nii rather than what you have been told about a myth... you have no evidence and never will have... start looking at folks as human beings with potential rather than sinners and devils... its just a little childish.
There's a first time for everything folks, and this was honestly the first time I've ever made deviled eggs from start to finish.
Everybody needs, sometimes, the strange and enraging creature — part cane - wielding schoolteacher, part pantomime villain, part folk - devil — that is the bastard in the black.
Campaign strategist Lynton Crosby has become something of a folk - devil for sections of the British and Australian media.
Maybe the folks who are caught between the devil and the deep blue sea?
Not that I'm completely saying no to red, but for now with Christmas just around the corner and folk dressed as red devils for Halloween...
They may firmly believe that by going out with a white women, I am inadvertently legitimizing this perceived privilege that white folk have, essentially selling my soul to the devil.
It's pretty clear why so many folk tales of the time involved the unspeakable horrors of what might happen to a family outside the comforting climbs and exacting legal codes of their tight - knit communities: If you didn't conform to society's by - laws, you were a sitting duck for the devil's mischief.
This time the story is inspired by the traditional Polish folk tale of Pan Twardowski, basically a sorcerer who sells his soul to the devil.
Brace yourselves folk, we're taking on the devil himself and hope to make him cry!
Monica Bay: To play devil's advocate for a moment though, that community that you just mentioned has a very, very robust annual meeting, that I have been to some of theirs and when you have added so many blocks, and I am not saying they are bad or good, but that venue when it was Legaltech only, the volume of folks that historically go there is so overwhelming to begin with, do you run the risk of having something for everyone in a venue that already has been a mob scene, is it going to overwhelm people or what's your goal on that?
If you're more the dare - devil than the couch potato, you may end up paying 2 to 3 times more for your life insurance policy than those low - risk folks.