Sökning: "late modernity"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 85 avhandlingar innehållade orden late modernity.

  1. 1. Överflöd och ofullbordan : Essä om det moderna

    Författare :Bo Isenberg; Sociologi; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; abstraction; abundance; classical modernity; contingency; crisis; modernity; oblivion; postmodernity; the principle of insufficient reason; religion; society; sociology; structivity; Sociology; tradition; cultural sociology; historical anthropology; Sociologi; Cultural anthropology; ethnology; Kulturantropologi; etnologi;

    Sammanfattning : The problem which the present study discusses is modernity. The study interprets modernity’s cultural and anthropological dispositions as historical appearances. Consequently, it is situated at the intersection of cultural sociology and historical anthropology. The aim is to generate insight and understanding rather than a coherent theory. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Religion in Dialogue with Late Modern Society: A Constructive Contribution to a Christian Spirituality Informed by Buddhist-Christian Encounters

    Författare :Ann Aldén; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Thich Nhat Hanh; Aloysius Pieris; Constructive Theology; Buddhist-Christian; Christian; Buddhism; Spirituality; Christian Spirituality; Society; Religion and Modernity; Modernity; Religion; Late Modern; Dialogue; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ; General; systematic and practical Christian theology; Kristen teologi allmän; systematisk och praktisk ;

    Sammanfattning : In this dissertation I make a constructive contribution to a Christian spirituality for late modern religiously plural society. The words ‘a constructive contribution’ designate the methodological approach of the study. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Systemmänniskan : En studie om människan, automationen och det senmoderna förnuftet

    Författare :Daniel Bodén; Ella Johansson; Hansen Kjell; Fredrik Nilsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; automation; culture; technology; social consciousness; reification; material-ity; modernity; late modernity; labour; production; consumption; service; division of labour; automation; kultur; teknik; socialt medvetande; reifikation; materialitet; modernitet; senmodernitet; arbete; service; arbetsdelning; Etnologi; Ethnology;

    Sammanfattning : How did the conformist “organization man” of modern welfare society turn into the restless and flexible market-rational individualist of late-modernity? And what role did technology play in this transformation? Drawing from inquiries like these, this doctoral thesis deals with topics such as technology, culture, and the production of social consciousness. The aim of the study is to elucidate the historical emergence of late-modern reason, visible in the socio-material process of automation. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Döden, kroppen och moderniteten

    Författare :Eva Åhren Snickare; Roger Qvarsell; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; death; the body; modernity; modernisation; Sweden; cultural history; 1870-1940; anatomy; pathology; corpse; dissection; specimen; spectacle; wax effigies; cerements; undertakers; post-mortem photography; cremation; döden; attityder; begravningsseder; medicin; historia; Sverige; 1870-1940; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with attitudes towards death and the dead body in Sweden during the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. This was a period of intense social and cultural change, during which Sweden was transformed from an agricultural society to a modem industrial state. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Industrimoderniteten och miljöfrågans utmaningar : en analys av LO, SAF, Industriförbundet och miljöpolitiken 1965-2000

    Författare :Magnus Linderström; Jonas Anshelm; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Interest-organisations; modernity; ecological modernisation; environmental policy; Miljöfrågor; Miljöpolitik; Sverige; 1960-2000; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Sammanfattning : The environmental issue has perhaps been the most difficult problem in the history of late industrial modernity. It has challenged the ideological and political confidence in modernisation and the cultural ethos of progress. LÄS MER