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Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 68 avhandlingar innehållade orden culture critique.

  1. 11. Treacherous Liberties : Isaiah Berlin's Theory of Positive and Negative Freedom in Contemporary Political Culture

    Författare :Gina Gustavsson; Li Bennich-Björkman; Johan Tralau; Karl-Oskar Lindgren; David Miller; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; freedom; liberty; values; autonomy; authenticity; tolerance; liberalism; permissiveness; Romanticism; Enlightenment; diversity; Inglehart; political culture; civicness; factor analysis; Statskunskap; Political Science;

    Sammanfattning : Contemporary attitudes in affluent Western societies are characterised by a growing emphasis on individual freedom. What, then, does this commitment to liberty entail for our openness to diversity; and ultimately for liberal democracy? Previous research on popular attitudes, for example by Ronald Inglehart, tends to assume that valuing freedom entails an encouragement of a plurality of life-styles. LÄS MER

  3. 12. Kampen om högt och lågt. Studier i den sena nittonhundratalsromanens förhållande till masskulturen och moderniteten

    Författare :Magnus Persson; Litteraturvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; literature criticism; General and comparative literature; Kerstin Ekman; Peter Høeg; Jan Kjærstad; mass culture; crime fiction; postmodernism; high low-culture; literary theory; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori; litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : The Struggle for High and Low Culture. Studies in the Late Twentieth Century Novel’s Relationship to Mass Culture and Modernity. It is a widespread opinion that the boundaries between high culture and mass culture have become less defined in our postmodern culture. LÄS MER

  4. 13. A Landscape of Left-Overs : Changing Conceptions of Place and Environment among Mi'kmaq Indians of Eastern Canada

    Författare :Anne-Christine Hornborg; Religionshistoria och religionsbeteendevetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; animism; traditional ecological knowledge; biocentrism; ecological ethics; environmental relations; being-in-the-world; lifeworlds; phenomenology; power; oral tradition; Kluskap; culture hero; tradition; Canada; Mi’kmaq Indians; Nova Scotia; sacred places; landscape; nature vs. culture; Cultural anthropology; ethnology; Kulturantropologi; etnologi; Canadian Mi kmaq Indians; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation seeks to explore historical changes in the lifeworld of the Mi’kmaq Indians of Eastern Canada. The Mi’kmaq culture hero Kluskap here serves as a key persona in discussing issues such as traditions, changing conceptions of land, and human-environmental relations. LÄS MER

  5. 14. Edukation som social integration : En hermeneutisk analys av den kinesiska undervisningens kulturspecifika dimension

    Författare :Jörgen From; Carina Holmgren; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Philosophical hermeneutics; understanding; Chinese philosophy; interpretational framework; culture-specific dimension; teaching in China; Chinese education; morality;

    Sammanfattning : The dissertation consists of eight studies in combination with a longer work, which links the eight studies together. The aim is two-fold: to develop a scientific approach within philosophical hermeneutics for the study of the culture-specific dimension of teaching in China, and to analyse the culture-specific dimension of teaching in China on the terms of this approach. LÄS MER

  7. 15. 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