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16. Distribution and Differences : Stratification and the System of Reproduction in a Swedish Peasant Community 1620-1820
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines the character, conditions and change of peasant stratification in early modern Sweden. Wherever and whenever one looks, one finds that resources were unevenly spread among peasant households. In the literature, there are different, and conflicting, views compatible with this finding. LÄS MER
17. Cosmopolitanism in a Mediatized World : The Social Stratification of Global Orientations
Sammanfattning : The contemporary media landscape invites us to experience a belonging to various distant places, mourn the victims of faraway disasters, expose ourselves to foreign cultures and engage in political issues in places far from our local context of living. In other words, we are invited to become citizens of the world – cosmopolitans. LÄS MER
18. Rennomadismens dilemma : det rennomadiska samhällets förändring i Tuorpon och Sirkas 1760-1860
Sammanfattning : The areas of study for this dissertation are the Turopon and Sirkas lappbyar (communities) in the parish of Jokkmokk during the period 1760—1860. The starting point for discussion is a decrease in population through migration to Norway, from 667 inhabitants in 1781, to 353 in 1868. LÄS MER
19. Rethinking adequate housing for low-income women of the Global South : reflections on women initiated housing transformations to Masese Women Slum-Upgrading Housing Project, Jinja, Uganda
Sammanfattning : The global discourse on low-income housing promotes participation to provide slum dwellers of the Global South with adequate housing. Despite acknowledged women’s extra vulnerability to the substandard housing of slums, how their participation, or what design considerations support their housing adequacy, remains ambiguous. LÄS MER
20. Den rökande människan. : Bilden av tobaksbruk i Sverige mellan 1950- och 1990-tal
Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with the cultural representations of smoking in Swedish popular press, books of etiquette, advertisment, popular medicine publications, and the health education genre. The questions focus on how tobacco has been used to represent specific values, ideas and ideals in relation to social and cultural contexts, as well as to femininity, masculinity, social stratification, risk, and health. LÄS MER