Sökning: "popular beliefs"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 67 avhandlingar innehållade orden popular beliefs.

  1. 11. Understanding the polarization of responses to genocidal violence in Rwanda

    Författare :Theogene Bangwanubusa; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; popular support; obedience; genocidal violence; grassroots thinking; elite; informal elite; social power; ordinary people; war-displaced people; immigration; social taboo; social pact; mixed ethnic relations;

    Sammanfattning : This doctoral dissertation is concerned with identifying factors that are important in explaining popular support for genocidal violence in Rwanda. It focuses on former communes, Giti and Murambi, to investigate why Giti successfully resisted the genocidal violence, while Murambi fell prey to large-scale violence. LÄS MER

  3. 12. En möjlig värld: En tematisk studie av Lars Gustafssons 1990-talsromaner

    Författare :Kerstin Bergman; Litteraturvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; literary theory; General and comparative literature; Fictional truth; fictional worlds; moral standards; ontology; theodicy; the Deluge; Gnosticism; monism; death; the Underworld; Memory Palaces; Millennial beliefs; Apocalypse; Michael Riffaterre; Anselm of Canterbury; Paul de Man; literature criticism; Ramon Llull; Spinoza.; Nordiska språk språk och litteratur ; Scandinavian languages and literature; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori;

    Sammanfattning : "En möjlig värld" explores how questions of moral standards and ontology are discussed explores how questions of moral standards and ontology are discussed and represented in three of Lars Gustafsson's novels in a search for a world that is conceivable - in terms of moral philosophy, as well as ontology. Initially, a theoretical foundation is constructed, based on the assumption that fictional texts are linguistic phenomena that mainly refer to the worlds they themselves create. LÄS MER

  4. 13. Bad mot Lort och Sjukdom : Den privathygieniska utvecklingen i Sverige 1880–1949

    Författare :Karolina Wiell; Lars Fälting; Mats Larsson; Johan Samuelsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Medical officer; Health care; Hygiene; Medical history; Medical science; Personal hygiene; Norm; Normalization; Popular science; Media; Professionalization; Public baths; Public health; Sauna; Bathhouses; Rural Sweden; Bastu; Badhus; Badstugor; Befolkningsekonomi; Bakteriologi; Befolkningshistoria; Beteendeekonomi; Beteendevetenskap; Bioetik; Ekonomi; Ekonomiskhistoria; Ekonomiskpolitik; Ekonomiskpsykologi; Folkbad; Folkbildning; Folkhälsa; Folkhälsoforskning; Folkrörelse; Folkrörelsehistoria; Förtroende; Förtroendeforskning; Hygien; Hygienvetenskap; Hälsovård; Ideologi; Kvinnohistoria; Landsbygd; Media; Mediahistoria; Medicinhistoria; Nationalekonomi; Normalisering; Normer; Offentliga bad; Personlig hygien; Populärvetenskap; Privathygien; Processpårning; Professionalisering; Provinsialläkare; Samhällsekonomi; Samhällshistoria; Textanalys; Utbildningshistoria; Välfärd; Välfärdssverige; Ekonomisk historia; Economic History;

    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

  5. 14. Tarot : New age i bild och berättelse

    Författare :Magnus Gudmundsson; Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; science faith; rational irrational; rituals; motion; movements; discourse; cultural reserves; illustrations; narration; intertextuality; text; divination; new age; tarot; individual experience; religious beliefs; Theology; Teologi;

    Sammanfattning : In the course of my dissertation work, I have sought knowledge about what New Age is, contains, and conveys by looking at practice and rhetoric, how the participants act and reason regarding their commitment, as well as how the contents of the field is discussed. I have put an emphasis on the small details: the objects, the rituals, and the narrating. LÄS MER

  7. 15. Vampyrer : En kulturkritisk studie av den västerländska vampyrberättelsen från 1700-talet till 2000-talet

    Författare :Anna Höglund; Lars Elleström; Lisbeth Larsson; Yvonne Leffler; Växjö universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; vampire; vampires; power; literature; film; popular culture; consumer culture; gender; vampyr; vampyrer; makt; litteratur; film; populärkultur; konsumtionskultur; genus; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; History of science and ideas; Idé- o lärdomshistoria; Comparative literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : Vampires haunt our culture. They live amongst us, they live with us, and very likely, they live for us. Considering the never fading popularity of vampires, it is obvious that these beings satisfy some kind of basic human need. LÄS MER