Folk or Folks may refer to:
Sociology
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Nation
A nation is a type of social organization where a collective Identity (social science), identity, a national identity, has emerged from a combination of shared features across a given population, such as language, history, ethnicity, culture, t ...
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People
The term "the people" refers to the public or Common people, common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. I ...
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Folklore
Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture. This includes oral traditions such as Narrative, tales, myths, legends, proverbs, Poetry, poems, jokes, and other oral traditions. This also ...
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Folk art
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Folk dance
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Folk hero
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Folk horror
Folk horror is a subgenre of horror film and horror fiction that uses elements of folklore to invoke fear and foreboding. Typical elements include a rural setting, isolation, and themes of superstition, folk religion, paganism, Human sacrifice, sa ...
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Folk music
Folk music is a music genre that includes #Traditional folk music, traditional folk music and the Contemporary folk music, contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be ca ...
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Folk metal
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Folk punk
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Folk rock
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Folk religion
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Folk taxonomy
Arts, entertainment, and media
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Folk Plus or Folk +, an Albanian folk music channel
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Folks (band), a Japanese band
* ''
Folks!'', a 1992 American film
People with the name
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Bill Folk (born 1927), Canadian ice hockey player
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Chad Folk (born 1972), Canadian football player
* Elizabeth Folk (c. 16th century), British martyr; one of the
Colchester Martyrs
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Eugene R. Folk (1924–2003), American ophthalmologist
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Joseph W. Folk (1869–1923), American lawyer, reformer, and politician
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Kevin Folk (born 1980), Canadian curler
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Nick Folk (born 1984), American football player
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Rick Folk (born 1950), Canadian curler
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Robert Folk (born 1949), American film composer
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Robert L. Folk (1925–2018), American geologist and sedimentary petrologist
Other uses
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Folk classification, a type of classification in geology
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Folks Nation, an alliance of American street gangs
* Another way to be referring to one's
parents, or just their
mother or
father.
See also
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Folkish (disambiguation)
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Volk (German word)
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