Sökning: "temperance society"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 18 avhandlingar innehållade orden temperance society.
1. Converging World Views : The European Expansion and Early-Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Swedish Contacts
Sammanfattning : The nineteenth-century colonial project transformed conceptions of the globe in ways that reflect the increase in European power over the rest of the world. This study investigates a rather neglected aspect of this process: the development of new images of the world within Europe, and specifically in Britain and Sweden, during the first half of the century. LÄS MER
2. Konsten att bli och förbli folklig : Svenska kyrkans och IOGT:s strategier och omvandling i kampen på offentlighetens arena 1880–1945
Sammanfattning : The theoretical discussion of how to define the public sphere relies on Jürgen Habermas’ analysis of the bourgeois public sphere. I the thesis I use two generalized models of both the bourgeois and the representative public sphere. I consider how well the two actors’ engagement in the public sphere fits the two models. LÄS MER
3. Medborgardygd : Den europeiska staden och det offentliga rummets etos
Sammanfattning : What does it mean to be a good citizen? Starting with Aristotle’s ethics and philosophy of friendship formulated between the private and the public in politics' and with the timeless question of what makes a society possible as a backdrop, the author outlines a possible answer. A good citizen is a virtuous citizen, and a virtuous citizen is prudent, courageous, moderate and just. LÄS MER
4. Bygden, bruket och samhället : Om människor och organisationer i brukssamhället Böksholm 1900-1979
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to study some of the forces behind the transformation of the 20th century industrialised countryside. The emphasis is on changes in everyday life for women and men, and the role of organisations therein. LÄS MER
5. Från arbetare till arbetarklass : Klassformering och klassrelationer i Fagersta - ett mellansvenskt brukssamhälle ca 1870-1909
Sammanfattning : The dissertation addresses the problem of the formation of an industrial working class. This is a concrete historical process in which the workers themselves are the main subjects. LÄS MER
