| Title | Folk Devils and the Hipster Figure: On Classification Struggles, Social Types and Figures in Moral Panic Research |
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| Contributor | Elias le Grand (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-13-2 |
| License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Publisher | Helsinki University Press |
| Published on | 2021-12-13 |
| Long abstract | This chapter draws on a case study of contested societal reactions to the middle-class hipster figure and gentrification in contemporary London. The analysis shows how public reactions involve forms of class politics and classificatory struggles over the moral meaning gentrification processes and the role of the hipster figure in the latter. Through this, the chapter discusses how the folk devil can be conceptualized as a social type by drawing on Bourdieu’s research on classification. |
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Elias le Grand holds a PhD in Sociology from Stockholm University and works as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Child and Youth Studies at Stockholm University. His research interests lie in the areas of identity formation, socio-spatial divisions, consumer culture, youth and generation. Current work explores the significance of social figures and public representations in classification struggles.