Heroes, Villains and Fools, as Agents of Social Control

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4945903
AutoresOrrin E Klapp (autor correspondente)
Ano1954
Volume19
Fascículo1
Páginas56
Data de publicação1954-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2088173
OpenAlexW2332812914
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas55

SOCIAL types comprise a relatively unappreciated field of popular culture. Though certain ones have been intensively studied from special points of view and the role of stereotypes has been long recognized, there has been little effort to catalog, classify, or even adequately consider the vast number of highly significant types to be found in common speech, jokes, comics, popular fiction, folklore and the like. These conceptions, appearing wherever the popular mind finds expression, are truly collective in nature rather than the property of individual authors, coins of thought as Sumner phrased it, serving to express group judgments, facilitate consensus, and define roles. This article is concerned with three especially significant generic figures, the hero, villain and fool, and aims to state a theory of their normative nature, role as

Control (management · Social control · Social science · Sociology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Humor Studies and Applications