Sökning: "national character"

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  1. 1. Konstens nationella identitet. : Om tysk och österrikisk modernism i svensk konstkritik 1908-1934

    Författare :Andrea Kollnitz; Margaretha Rossholm Lagerlöf; Barbro Schaffer; Marta Edling; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; art criticism; rhetoric; nationalism; national identity; modernism; avant-garde; artist’s rôle; German expressionism; Austrian expressionism; German art; Swedish art; Wassily Kandinsky; Käthe Kollwitz; Art; Konstvetenskap; konstvetenskap; Art History;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates the reactions to German and Austrian modernism in Swedish art criticism between 1908 and 1934. It analyses the rhetoric of art-critical texts and examines the persuasive strategies and powerful verbal imagery of art criticism as well as its national interests. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Quality management : National or global driving factors

    Författare :Dag Kroslid; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Quality Management; Quality Development; Business Excellence; Total Quality Management; Culture; Hofstede;

    Sammanfattning : Around the world Quality Management is commonly regarded by industrialists and academics as a management concept that encompasses the potential in any organisation of developing into a company-wide philosophy with a profound focus on stakeholder values and improvement processes. However, there are mounting evidence that Quality Management has developed into an important strategic issue also on a national level, and that some leading industrial nations have enjoyed significant gains in the post War era by means of nation-wide progresses in Quality Management. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Klimat och karaktär : Naturen och människan i sent svenskt 1700-tal

    Författare :Carl Frängsmyr; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History of science and ideas; climate; climatic theory; topography; history writing; race; national character; 18th century science; history of medicine; Idé- och lärdomshistoria; History of science and ideas; Idé- o lärdomshistoria; idé- och lärdomshistoria; History Of Sciences and Ideas;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with the influence of the notion of climate in Sweden 1750-1800. The theory of climate played an important role in many contexts in eighteenth century Sweden. In different ways it came to be used in historiography, political economy and, in time, in the study of man in the emerging discipline of anthropology. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Kampen om befolkningen : Den svenska nationsformeringens utveckling och sociopolitiska förutsättningar ca 1780–1860

    Författare :Anne Berg; Torkel Jansson; Henrik Edgren; David Sjögren; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History; Sweden; The Age of Revolution; nationalism; national ideological project; national identity; nation formation; nation building; social class; intellectuals; social history; hegemony; intellectuals; liberal class society; Western European states; History; Historia; Historia; History;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to problematize the western type of nation formation by characterizing and explaining the Swedish process of national identity construction during the Age of Revolution. Thus, the thesis sets out to investigate the political-hegemonic process of identity formation, redefinition and struggle between different political forces. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Den envise bonden och Nordens fransmän : svensk och finsk etnicitet samt nationell historieskrivning i svenska och finlandssvenska läroböcker 1866-1939

    Författare :Lina Spjut; Lars Elenius; Björn Norlin; Anne Berg; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Textbooks; Ethnicity; History; National Identity; Swedish; Finland-Swedish; läroböcker; etnicitet; historia; nation; nationell identitet; svenskspråkig; Sverige; Finland;

    Sammanfattning : Sweden and Finland were one country for more than 600 years and there are many remaining links between the two countries. Throughout the period, but even today there are Swedish and Finnish populations on both sides of the Gulf of Bothnia. LÄS MER