Sökning: "nineteenth century"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 242 avhandlingar innehållade orden nineteenth century.

  1. 11. 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. 12. Svensk brevkultur på 1800-talet : Språklig och kommunikationsetnografisk analys av en familjebrevväxling

    Författare :Kristina Persson; Mats Thelander; Carin Östman; Jan Svensson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Scandinavian languages - general; correspondence; letter-writing; social practice; literacy; nineteenth century; Swedish; address; variation in style; Nordiska språk - allmänt; Scandinavian languages; Nordiska språk; Scandinavian Languages;

    Sammanfattning : In this dissertation, I examine the correspondence of an upper middle-class family from the early part of the nineteenth century. My aim is to answer questions about correspondence and letter-writing as an everyday event and as a social activity. My principal theoretical framework has been ethnograpy of communication. LÄS MER

  4. 13. Från moderhuset till domkyrkan. Upptagning, invigning och vigning av diakoner och diakonissor i Svenska Kyrkan 1855-1999

    Författare :Helena Inghammar; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; deacons; deaconesses; Church of Sweden; nineteenth century; twentieth century; rituals for accepting; blessing and ordaining; mother house;

    Sammanfattning : Abstract D. Div. dissertation at Göteborg University, Sweden, 2006 Title: Från moderhuset till domkyrkan. LÄS MER

  5. 14. Knowledge and Survival in the Novels of Thomas Hardy

    Författare :Jane Mattisson; Engelska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Wessex -- Thomas Hardy; rural skills in literature; literature and society -- nineteenth century; epistemology and literature; evolution in literature; Pierre Bourdieu and literature; education in literature; sociolinguistics and literature; sociology and literature; Victorian fiction; Key words: Thomas Hardy; nineteenth-century fiction; history and literature -- nineteenth century; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

    Sammanfattning : Abstract This thesis identifies two different kinds of knowledge in Thomas Hardy's novels: the everyday, passed on from generation to generation, which is non-academic and closely bound to the local environment and its traditions; and the specialised, recorded in the printed word, which is the product of formal education and independent of the local community and its traditions. These two kinds of epistemological competence determine one's ability to adapt and survive in a changing society. LÄS MER

  7. 15. Skåda all världens uselhet : visuell pedagogik och reformism i det sena 1800-talets populärkultur

    Författare :Anna-Maria Hällgren; Thomas Björk; Henrik Widmark; Pelle Snickars; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; visuality; late 19th century popular culture; visual culture; visual pedagogy; media history; the social question; social reform; late 19th century Stockholm; the political technology of the body; visualitet; det sena 1800-talets populärkultur; visuell kultur; visuell pedagogik; mediehistoria; den sociala frågan; socialreformism; sekelskiftets Stockholm; kroppens politiska teknologi; konstvetenskap; Art History;

    Sammanfattning : This doctoral dissertation analyzes practices of looking within popular culture during the late nineteenth century. Visual attractions, illustrated press and traveling amusement shows included representations of social ills, such as poverty, criminality and prostitution. LÄS MER