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Afterword. Folk Devils: From Youthful Innocence to Conceptual Maturity

  • Paul Joosse (author)
Chapter of: Modern Folk Devils: Contemporary Constructions of Evil
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TitleAfterword. Folk Devils: From Youthful Innocence to Conceptual Maturity
ContributorPaul Joosse (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-13-14
Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
PublisherHelsinki University Press
Published on2021-12-13
Long abstract

This afterword focuses specifically to Stanley Cohen and considers how questions of contextualization and historicity can be productively added to Cohen’s original framework, as shown by the chapters of this volume.

Keywords
  • Folk devils
  • Stanley Cohen
  • youth
  • conceptual maturity
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Paul Joosse

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Department of Sociology at University of Hong Kong

Paul Joosse is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Hong Kong.  He works at the intersection of sociological and criminological theory.  Recent articles of his include “Countering Trump: Toward a Theory of Charismatic Counter-roles” (2018) which received the International Sociological Association's Junior Theorist Award; “Max Weber’s Disciples: Theorizing the Charismatic Aristocracy” (2017) which won the ASA Culture Section's Clifford Geertz Prize; and “Expanding Moral Panic Theory to Include the Agency of Charismatic Entrepreneurs” (2018) which won the Society for the Study of Social Problems Outstanding Theory Article Award. ​

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