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Substantiv

  1. (idiomatic, sociology) A person or type of person blamed by the public for various ills, as during a moral panic.

Exempel

  • It may be true, as Fred Robinson, a senior researcher at Newcastle University said, "Many people view Mrs. Thatcher as a kind of folk devil."
  • "Every time things become problematic we start careering towards social causes and pick on a folk devil to attribute all evil."
  • There is always a tendency, in the mainstream as much as the fringes, to blame real or imagined social problems on a folk devil.

Böjningsformer

Pluralfolk devils