folk devils
folk devils A term employed most famously by Stanley Cohen in his study of the
moral panic about the ‘Mods’ and ‘Rockers’
subcultures in England during the 1960s (see
Folk Devils and Moral Panics, 1972
). Drawing upon
interactionist approaches to the sociology of
collective behaviour, Cohen suggests that society creates a gallery of social types ‘to show its members which roles should be avoided and which should be emulated’. Those groups seen as deviant, and of which society disapproves, occupy ‘a constant position as folk devils: visible reminders of what we should not be’. The term has since been used widely in other studies of representations of
deviance. See also
LABELLING.
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PATRICK HAMILTON
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/5/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...sudden extinction of his faith, Patrick Hamilton soon came to make a habit of...sunk. Directly after the war Hamilton married a second cousin, and...two sons, Simon and James, Patrick Hamilton found himself making for London...
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Film Studies: Baleful, dark, mysterious - why is it so hard to capture Patrick Hamilton on screen?
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 3/20/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...season of films adapted from Patrick Hamilton's novels and plays at the National...So it's splendid to have Hamilton at the NFT - or would be if...season will send more readers to Patrick Hamilton. The films made from his works...
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Books: Whisky sour Laura Thompson raises a glass to the novelist Patrick Hamilton, remorseless chronicler of downbeat pub life
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 3/14/2004; ; 700+ words
; Patrick Hamilton, who was born 100 years ago this...him. Nor would the urge to drink. Patrick Hamilton is the poet of compulsion. His best...same thing all over again. It is Patrick Hamilton's peculiar talent to engage his...
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Satirising the bourgeois worldview: Patrick Hamilton's Impromptu in Moribundia.
Magazine article from: Capital & Class; 12/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; Patrick Hamilton emerged as a well-regarded author during...and 1930s and, in terms of subject, 'Hamilton wrote best about the social milieux of...life in the anonymous city (see B. Hamilton, 1972; Jones, 1991; French, 1993...
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World upon World, Genre and History: Patrick Hamilton's "Impromptu in Moribundia".(British dystopian novel)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; PATRICK HAMILTON is best known today for his plays Rope...Home Front. Between 1925 and 1955, Hamilton wrote nine plays, the best of which...minatory years from 1936 to 1938, Patrick Hamilton shifted from the punctilious Victorian...
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Review: Books: Revised Editions Which authors, or books, do not enjoy the standing they deserve? Continuing our series on underrated reputations, the author and barrister John Mortimer nominates Patrick Hamilton
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 5/21/2000; ; 503 words
; ...remarkable novelist who created a world of his own. Patrick Hamilton's world has been called Greeneland without the...clearly a relationship that has to end in murder. Patrick Hamilton's world is further investigated in the trilogy...
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Francis Patrick Hamilton
Newspaper article from: Herald News, The (Joliet, IL); 6/23/2001; 484 words
; ...Joliet, IL, was the son of Mary Kelly Hamilton of Paola, KS. he attended Rockhurst...Barbara; and their children, Kelly Hamilton, PhD and husband Joseph Bellina, PhD; Lieutenant Kristine Hamilton and her husband Sergeant James Henry...
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Getting under the skin of melodrama; Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky. By Patrick Hamilton (Waterstone's, pounds 7.99). Reviewed by Stephen Harrison.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 1/9/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Plains of Cement and sounds the very stuff of melodrama. But Hamilton is a much better writer than that, as suggested by the novel...kindness." The novels are said to be heavily autobiographical. Hamilton apparently had a disastrous romance of his own with a West...
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PRETTY AS A PICTURE At the age of 82, painter Patrick Hamilton discovered the joys - and difficulties - of going it alone to China
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 10/8/2006; ; 700+ words
; You are as old as you feel, so I decided to ignore the fact that I was 82 when I headed off to China on my own to paint earlier this year. Although my backpacking days were long gone and funds were no longer in such short supply, this adventure was actually commissioned by an old friend with a
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PATRICK-MURRAY ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCES HAMILTON CANAL GROWTH DISTRICT IN LOWELL
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 9/3/2008; 700+ words
; ...today announced that the Hamilton Canal Growth District...comes as part of the Patrick-Murray Administration...districts, such as the Hamilton Canal Growth District...Growth District. "The Hamilton Canal Growth District...years to come." "The Patrick-Murray Administration...
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Patrick Hamilton
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Patrick Hamilton 1504?-1528, Scottish Protestant martyr...Germany he wrote Loci communes, known as Patrick's Places, embodying the doctrines of the Reformation. When Hamilton returned in 1527 to Scotland, he was...
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Hamilton, Patrick
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Hamilton, Patrick ( c. 1504–28), Scottish Protestant proto-martyr. He was attracted to M. Luther's writings and visited Wittenberg...
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Hamilton, (Anthony Walter) Patrick
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Hamilton, (Anthony Walter) Patrick (1904–62), wrote several successful plays, including...preoccupation with the perils and pleasures of drinking, and Hamilton's Marxism is expressed in his compassion for the hopelessness...
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Alesius, Alexander
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
...x2018;Alane’, Scottish Lutheran divine. As a canon of St Andrews, he was selected to confute Patrick Hamilton , but was won over by his arguments and steadfastness at the stake (1528). Soon afterwards he preached a sermon...
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Ffrangcon-Davies, Dame Gwen
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...were Elizabeth Moulton-Barrett in Rudolf Besier's The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1930) and Mrs Manningham in Patrick Hamilton's Gaslight (1939). In 1950, after several years in South Africa, she was with the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre...
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