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1. 1. Äreminnen : Personmedaljer och social status i Sverige, cirka 1650–1900

   Författare :Martin Tunefalk; Mats Hallenberg; Mikael Alm; Joachim Östlund; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sweden; social status; pre-modernity; medals; commemorations; ideas about society; history of concepts; public sphere; discourse; symbolic capital; performativity; longue durée; 17th century; 18th century; 19th century; History; historia;

   Sammanfattning : The purpose of this dissertation is to study the waning of premodern ideas about society by investigating the ways in which social status was conceived. Analyses of linguistic expressions and negotiations of status are used to study changes in how different social groups related and acted on one another, what changed, and what remained constant as premodernity gave way to modernity. LÄS MER

3. 2. Den dolda transitionen : om ett demografiskt brytningsskede i det tidiga 1700-talets Sverige : The Hidden Transition. A Demographic Long-term Change in Early 18th Century Sweden

   Författare :Daniel Larsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; history; Sweden; transition; crop failure; demography; 17th century; 18th century; nuptiality; mortality; fertility; diseases; parish register; Tabellverket; Great Northern War; demographic change; grain prices;

   Sammanfattning : Historical agricultural and economical research indicates that the extensive changes in society that occurred in Sweden (within agriculture, trade, landownership and production) at the end of Sweden's Time of Greatness in 1720 should have noticeably affected the living conditions of the population. A systematic study that compares the 17th and 18th century's demography has however still not been made. LÄS MER

4. 3. Den isolerade medborgaren : Liberalt styre och uppkomsten av det sociala vid 1800-talets mitt

   Författare :Frans Lundgren; Tore Frängsmyr; Anders Ekström; Roger Qvarsell; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History of science and ideas; birth of the social; liberal governmentality; moral technologies; liberal reformism; the solitary confinement penitentiary; criminal statistics; prison-photography; district visiting poor relief; the bildung-society for workers; the social question; mid 19th century Sweden; Idé- och lärdomshistoria; History of science and ideas; Idé- o lärdomshistoria; Idé- och lärdomshistoria; History of Sciences and Ideas;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of the dissertation is to study the problem definitions and the governmental rationality of new activities aimed at reforming criminals, the poor and workers in Sweden during the mid-1800s. Three case studies analyse the solitary confinement penitentiary, the district visiting poor relief and the bildung-society for workers. LÄS MER

5. 4. Det svaga könet? : kön och vuxendödlighet i 1800-talets Sverige

   Författare :Sam Willner; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; alcohol; causes of death; gender; marital status; maternal mortality; sex differential mortality; 19th Century Sweden; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

   Sammanfattning : This study deals with mortality among adults in 19th century Sweden. Ever since the mid-eighteenth century there has been a pattern of excessive male mortality in practically all ages. The gap between the mortality curves of men and women have, however, varied greatly in time and space. LÄS MER

7. 5. "En ohyra på samhällskroppen" : Kriminalitet, kontroll och modernisering i Sverige och Sundsvallsdistriktet under 1800- och det tidiga 1900-talet

   Författare :Glenn Svedin; Marie Clark Nelson; Mittuniversitetet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Criminality; crime policy; theft; violence; drunkenness; public order; police; social control; modernization; crime; social capital; migration; industrialization; urbanization; social bonds; civil society; popular movements; 19th century Sweden; 20th century Sweden; Sundsvall; social change; delinquency; asociality;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis presents an analysis of crime trends and social control during the dramatic transformation of Sweden's social landscape in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, set against the background of the modernization process in the country as a whole and the city of Sundsvall and environs in particular. What assumptions about crime were evident in public debate? How did crime levels vary from region to region, and what were the changes over time? What strategies did government and local authorities try for combating crime? Did the joint efforts by government, local communities, and the voluntary sector actually solve the problems that social change was believed to have caused?When it comes to theory, the interpretative framework is based on Anthony Giddens's argument about modernity and modernization, making particular use of a few central points about what the changes meant for the structuration of society. LÄS MER