Sökning: "civilisation"

Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 40 avhandlingar innehållade ordet civilisation.

  1. 21. Modernitet i det traditionella : kulturbyggen och gränser inom ett nordsvenskt område

    Författare :Lars Olov Sjöström; Kurt Genrup; Alf Arvidsson; Solveig Sjöberg-Pietarinen; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; basal and variable modernity; local collectivity; identity; cultural boundaries; bourgeois society; banquets; symbolic capital; Ethnology; Etnologi;

    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

  3. 22. Våra förfäder var hedningar : Nordisk forntid som myt i den svenska folkskolans pedagogiska texter fram till år 1919

    Författare :Johan Wickström; Eva Hellman; Olof Sundqvist; Stefan Arvidsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; use of history; myth; mythology; Old Norse religion; pre-history; ethnicity; nationalism; class; Old Icelandic; educational history; textbooks; school; didactics; Antonio Gramsci; Bruce Lincoln; intellectuals; history of religions; classification; hierarchy; ideology; History of religion; Religionshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : Narratives of Nordic pre-history are common in textbooks of the Swedish 'folk school'. This thesis discusses them from an ideological critical perspective and analyses them as textbook myths. This analytic concept of myth is constructed and used as a tool for studying ideological expressions in pedagogical texts. LÄS MER

  4. 23. Den teokratiska statens död : sekularisering och civilisering i 1700-talets Stockholm

    Författare :Börje Bergfeldt; Daniel Lindmark; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Business and economics; Ekonomi; Economic History; ekonomisk historia;

    Sammanfattning : The point of departure for this dissertation is the discussion of the history of civilisation that has been held in the wake of the German sociologist and historian, Norbert Elias. One of the most radical changes in our society during the last 250 years, and at the same time one of the most fundamental aspects of the civilising process, is secularization. LÄS MER

  5. 24. Arkitekten Ivar Tengbom : byggnadskonst på klassisk grund

    Författare :Anders Bergström; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ivar Tengbom; Architecture; Sweden; 20th Century; History of Architecture; Theory of Architecture; Restoration; Architecture; Arkitektur;

    Sammanfattning : Arkitekten Ivar Tengbom - byggnadskonst på klassiskgrund (The Architecture of Ivar Tengbom). With an Englishsummary. 384 p. Illustrated. LÄS MER

  7. 25. Steel as the Answer? : Viking Bodies, Power, and Masculinity in Anglophone Fantasy Literature 2006–2016

    Författare :Anna Bark Persson; Ulla Manns; Ann-Sofie Lönngren; Maria Lindgren Leavenworth; Södertörns högskola; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Vikings; the North; the Nordics; masculinity; fantasy literature; queer reading; temporality; postfeminism; embodiment; vikingar; Norden; maskulinitet; fantasylitteratur; queer läsning; temporalitet; postfeminism; kroppslighet; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory; genusvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines the motif of the popular Viking in contemporary Anglophone fantasy literature, with a focus on masculinity, power, embodiment,and sexuality. The study draws on queer-theoretical perspectives on masculinity and the method of queer reading, and approaches the Viking as at once bound up with the legitimization of normative and hegemonic forms of masculinity and open to (queer) negotiations and possibilities beyond normative male masculinities. LÄS MER