History, Commemoration, and Belief: Abraham Lincoln in American Memory, 1945-2001

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The paper analyzes the ways in which villains are created and villain-images imputed to individuals. Klapp first provides a provisional definition of vilification, which clearly distinguishes between vilification and other forms of malicious social behavior such as scapegoating and libel. He then identifies and describes the different phases of the vilifying process and provides analytical tools for further study of this process. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of whether vilification is an unavoidable social phenomenon

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The popular hero is a social type having certain definable roles. The problem of making a hero is that of imputing to a person these roles and of maintaining and building a collective interpretation which has the character of a legend. The destroying of a hero is the casting of him in antiheroic roles. Social types, especially fundamental symbols such as the hero, the villain, and the fool, provide a key to collective psychology because the mass recognizes and readily responds to these symbols

Heroes, villains, and fools: the changing American character

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