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Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 345 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Modernity.
11. Industrimoderniteten och miljöfrågans utmaningar : en analys av LO, SAF, Industriförbundet och miljöpolitiken 1965-2000
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
12. Environmental politics and the enchantment of modernity : mercury and radioactive waste disposal in Sweden
Sammanfattning : Current Swedish environmental policy embraces the notion of sustainable development and the discourse of ecological modernisation, both of which stress the role of modern institutions in environmental protection work. In pursuing ecological sustainability, the Swedish Government assigns importance to the issue of domestic, safe, final disposal of mercury and radioactive waste; responsibility for mercury and radioactive waste management must not be passed to future generations. LÄS MER
13. Shock and Naturalization : An Inquiry into the Perception of Modernity
Sammanfattning : In sociology shock is often seen as emblematic of modernity. However, while Benjamin and Simmel famously portray the big city crowd - and by extension modernity itself - as an arena of shock, shock sensations are notable for their absence in depictions of the crowd as well as of modernity as a whole in much contemporary literature. LÄS MER
14. Modernitet i det traditionella : kulturbyggen och gränser inom ett nordsvenskt område
Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis examines how modernisation affects and is affected by existing local culture and identity. It is about the relation between the social and mental barriers experienced, expressed and manifested in the social culture of local community, and modernisation’s dynamic powers over time. LÄS MER
15. Systemmänniskan : En studie om människan, automationen och det senmoderna förnuftet
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
