Sökning: "process of civilization"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 25 avhandlingar innehållade orden process of civilization.

  1. 1. Uppfostran, undervisning, upplysning : linjer i svensk folkundervisning före folkskolan

    Författare :Daniel Lindmark; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History of literacy; ideology of education; history of concepts; popular education; moral instruction; reading culture; socialization; patriarchalism; enlightenment; process of civilization; Folkundervisning-- Sverige -- 1700-talet -- 1800-talet;

    Sammanfattning : The present dissertation discusses changes in Swedish popular education from the literacy campaign conducted at the end of the 17th century to the institution of universal elementary education in the middle of the 19th century. The onus is laid on the intense period of reform around 1770-1820, when popular enlightenment became an issue of political debate and both the content and organization of popular education was transformed. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Drömmen om det goda livet : livskvalitet och matvanor i ett uppväxande industrisamhälle : Stocka sågverk 1870-1980

    Författare :Christina Fjellström; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Working-class; food habits; fat; fiber; good life ; life-style; poverty-cycle; process of civilization;

    Sammanfattning : The object of this study, taken from an inter-disciplinary standpoint, is to examine how dietary habits of a population of industrial workers in an agrarian environment have changed during the last hundred years, from a qualitative rather than a quantitative point of view. Of particular interest is to ascertain the values which "the common man" has held regarding his dietary and food habits. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Den rationella konsumenten : KF som folkuppfostrare 1899-1939

    Författare :Peder Aléx; Bo Sundin; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Consumer; Co-operation; Housewife; Consumption; Ideal-Type; Education; Thrift; Natural Needs; Rationality; Civilization; History Of Sciences and Ideas; idé- och lärdomshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : This study deals with the consumer co-operative in Sweden, specifically The Co-operative Union and Wholesale Society and the ideas that were developed within and disseminated by this organization between the years 1899 and 1939. The main theories used in the dissertation are Max Weber’s ideal-type and Norbert Elias’ civilization process. LÄS MER

  5. 4. A Pilgrimage to the Past : Johannes Bureus and the Rise of Swedish Antiquarian Scholarship, 1600-1650

    Författare :Matthew Norris; Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bureus; Antiquarianism; History of Scholarship; Runology; History of Writing; Ancient Wisdom;

    Sammanfattning : At the end of the eighteenth century, Edward Gibbon described the antiquarian scholars of previous generations as men of “profound learning and easy faith.” His exemplar was the Swedish polymath Olof Rudbeck, who in a series of frantic and combative tomes sought to portray Sweden as the model for Plato’s Atlantis and the seething cultural cauldron from which Western civilization had emerged. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Fjällfolk : livsformer och kulturprocesser i Tärna socken under 1800- och 1900-talen

    Författare :Per Moritz; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Life stories; mountain dwellers; forms of exploitation of resources; socialized knowledge; ecological adaption; values; stor-telling traditions; history of civilization; innovations; processes of cultural change;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to investigate life forms and the dynamics of cultural processes in the parish of Tärna, Västerbotten. The material is an investigation of the life stories of two families, which have been investigated from an overall scientific aspect. LÄS MER