Sökning: "populärvetenskap"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade ordet populärvetenskap.
1. Morgondagens experter : Tekniken, ungdomen och framsteget i populärvetenskap och science fiction i Sverige under det långa 1950-talet
Sammanfattning : This study analyzes different views of science, technology and progress in popular science and science fiction published in Sweden during the 'long 1950s' (ca 1946-1964) and how they were related to youth. In the first part, popular technical periodicals are discussed - Teknikes Värld (Technical World) and Teknik för Alla (Technolvgy for Everyone). LÄS MER
2. Mellan nytta och nöje: Ett bidrag till populärvetenskapens historia i Sverige
Sammanfattning : Avhandlingen undersöker den populärvetenskapliga genrens framväxt i Sverige. Studien inleds med en föregångare till senare tiders genre, nämligen de nyttiga rönen som från mitten av 1700-talet spreds från Kungliga vetenskapsakademien i Stockholm. LÄS MER
3. Genus & genrer : forskningsanknutna genusdiskurser i dagspress
Sammanfattning : At the centre of this study lies the question of how research-related media texts contribute to the social construction of sex and gender conceptions when they use research, either as a main source, or to support or comment on specific issues and statements, from the political arena, for example. The principal aim of the study has been to analyze and problematize the ways in which different types of newspapers, genres and editorial sections reproduce, or contribute to change, in existing gender discourses. LÄS MER
4. The Literary Construction of the Universe : Narratives of Truth, Transcendence, and Triumph in Contemporary Anglo-American Popularizations of Physics and Astronomy
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5. Bad mot Lort och Sjukdom : Den privathygieniska utvecklingen i Sverige 1880–1949
Sammanfattning : In this thesis, the question of why a large number of small, modest, public baths (saunas) were built on the Swedish countryside during 1920–1949 has been analysed. The specific research question has been: How did the idea of the need for the baths, as well better personal hygiene among the Swedish population, develop? The study is based on a number of different sources, including governmental registers, records, and motions to parliament, reports from the organization of the district medical officers, popular science books, leaflets, schoolbooks and magazines. LÄS MER