Sökning: "modernization of Sweden"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 41 avhandlingar innehållade orden modernization of Sweden.
1. Helgonbruk i moderniseringstider : Bruket av Birgitta- och Olavstraditionerna i samband med minnesfiranden i Sverige och Norge 1891–2005
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
2. Embracing Science : Sino-Swedish Collaborations in the Field Sciences, 1902–1935
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
3. A Temple of Technology : Modernity and Industral Heritage at the Gothenburg Exhibition of 1923
Sammanfattning : The empirical focus of this study is the Jubilee Exhibitionin Gothenburg in 1923with 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
4. Paranormal Sweden? : Paranormal beliefs and practices in contemporary Sweden
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
5. Råd i radion : Modernisering, allmänhet och expertis 1939-1968
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