Sökning: "modernization of Sweden"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 41 avhandlingar innehållade orden modernization of Sweden.

  1. 1. Helgonbruk i moderniseringstider : Bruket av Birgitta- och Olavstraditionerna i samband med minnesfiranden i Sverige och Norge 1891–2005

    Författare :Ingemar Lindaräng; Peter Aronsson; Kalle Bäck; Torbjörn Nilsson; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Use of history; commemorations; Norway; Sweden; S. Bridget; S. Olav; modernization; secularization; identity; Historiebruk; minnesfiranden; Norge; Sverige; heliga Birgitta; hellig Olav; modernisering; sekularisering; identitet.; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Sammanfattning : Avhandlingen syftar till att jämföra och förstå variationen av historiebruk i samband med minnesfiranden av heliga Birgitta i Sverige och hellig Olav i Norge med fokus på olika aktörers motiv, resurser, budskap och identitetsskapande processer i en tid av modernisering och sekularisering.Under den katolska medeltiden var helgonfiranden vanliga, men de förbjöds i samband med reformationen. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Embracing Science : Sino-Swedish Collaborations in the Field Sciences, 1902–1935

    Författare :Jan Romgard; Marja Kaikkonen; Stephen Morgan; Hans Ulrich Vogel; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Republican China; history of science; Geological Survey of China; Academia Sinica; Ding Wenjiang; Weng Wenhao; geology; palaeontology; archaeology; palaeoanthropology; geography; modernization; nationalism; scientific communities; international collaboration; Johan Gunnar Andersson; Sven Hedin; Erik Nyström; Swedish Museum of Natural History; Sino-Swedish Expedition; Central Asia; Asian Languages and Cultures; Asiens språk och kulturer;

    Sammanfattning : In 1902, a Swedish professor at Shanxi University started to study the region’s geology and in 1913, he suggested to the Chinese Republican Government an expansion of these surveys nationwide. As a result, the Head of the Geological Survey of Sweden, J. G. Andersson, was employed as a geological adviser to the Chinese Government. LÄS MER

  4. 3. A Temple of Technology : Modernity and Industral Heritage at the Gothenburg Exhibition of 1923

    Författare :Anders Houltz; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :industrial history; history of technology; cultural history; modernity; cultural heritage; use of history; exhibitions; museums; museology; industrial identity; professionalization; the Gothenburg exhibition of 1923; Sweden; Gothenburg; 20th century;

    Sammanfattning : The empirical focus of this study is the Jubilee Exhibitionin Gothenburg in 1923–with more than four millionvisitors the biggest exhibition ever held in the Nordiccountries. In its wide-ranging displays of both historical andcontemporary material, technology and technological artifactsoccupied a central position. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Paranormal Sweden? : Paranormal beliefs and practices in contemporary Sweden

    Författare :Cristoffer Tidelius; Maria Klingenberg; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Paranormal; Paranormal beliefs; Paranormal practices; Mediumship; Ghost hunts; Cryptozoology; Parapsychology; Ufology; Occulture; Epistemic authority; Epistemic capital; Boundary-work; Sociology of Religion; Religionssociologi;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation aims to study the contemporary occurrence of paranormal beliefs, activities and experiences in Sweden as well as a paraculture of practices dedicated to these issues, with a particular focus on issues of knowledge and authority. The study is placed against the backdrop of academic and popular claims that paranormal beliefs, activities and experiences are not only common but are also on the rise. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Råd i radion : Modernisering, allmänhet och expertis 1939-1968

    Författare :Sofia Seifarth; Martin Kylhammar; Patrik Lundell; Björn Horgby; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Radio; Sweden; 20th Century history; modernization; folkhem; the people’s home; the Swedish Welfare State; cultural radicalism; public information; advice; letters; listeners; expert; social reforms; public education; social political propaganda; public opinion; Radio; Sverige; historia; 1900-tal; modernisering; folkhem; välfärdsstat; kulturradikalism; upplysning; rådgivning; brev; brevlåda; lyssnare; expert; expertis; socialpolitik; social propaganda; medborgarfostran; allmänhet; opinionsbildning; Media and communication studies; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with two series of radio programmes where listeners’ social and personal questions were answered on the air, broadcasted between 1939 and 1968. This is the period in Swedish history which is usually called the era of the folkhem (“The people’s home”) when social reforms, cultural radicalism and social planning – modernization in the cultural, political and material senses – became a broad project and ideology. LÄS MER