Search for dissertations about: "Historical political sociology"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 49 swedish dissertations containing the words Historical political sociology.

2. 1. Generations in motion : The transition in Hungary and the democratic change of regime, 1987-94

   Author : Annika Eliasson; Sociologi; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; political change; political sociology; Historical sociology; Hungary; change of regime; generations; transition; Sociologi;

   Abstract : This dissertation explains the transition - the change of political system from a one-party state to a multi-party system - in Hungary as the result of a generation change, where different generations with different historical experiences either lost or gained political capital. It also includes a review of what consequences the changes in the political field had for the intellectual and economic fields. READ MORE

4. 2. Grasping the Peripheral State : A Historical Sociology of Nicaraguan State Formation

   Author : Anders Neergaard; Sociologiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; national arena; international arena; integrative capacity; repressive capacity; extractive capacity; international system of states; world capitalist economy; colonial legacy; peripheral state; nation-state; state formation; Historical political sociology; state forms; state arena; infrastructural power; despotic power.; Sociology; Sociologi;

   Abstract : The thesis has two aims. The first one is to contribute to the field of political and historical sociology through an understanding of the processes of state formation in a Third World country. The second aim is to describe and analyze the development of the Nicaraguan state from independence to 1990. READ MORE

5. 3. Partition and redemption : a Machiavellian analysis of Sami and Basque patriotism

   Author : Johan Eriksson; Janerik Gidlund; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Partition; redemption; Machiavelli; Sami; Basque; patriotism; irredentism; polity; Samer; Basker folk ; Patriotism; Politics; Economy and the Organization of Society;

   Abstract : Since the end of the Second World War, the location of most interstate borders has been fixed.This suggests that the common phenomenon of ethnic groups partitioned by internationallyrecognized state borders is permanent. Nevertheless, a recurrent dream of 'redemption' (i.e. READ MORE

6. 4. On the Visual (Re)production of ‘Refugeeness’ : Images, production sites and oppositional gazes

   Author : Jelena Jovičić; Vanessa Barker; Anna Lund; Nicole Doerr; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; visual sociology; visual discourse analysis; visual production; visual participatory methods; coloniality; racial capitalism; decolonial thought; feminist epistemologies; epistemic disobedience; refugees; refugee crisis; migration studies; critical border studies; Sociology; sociologi;

   Abstract : This dissertation explores ways in which images disseminate specific kinds of knowledge and shape the way we understand issues of migration and flight today. In the wake of the 2015/2016 ‘refugee crisis’ in Europe, there has been a vast proliferation of photography depicting flight and people fleeing. READ MORE

7. 5. On suicide in European countries : some theoretical, legal and historical views on suicide mortality and its concomitants

   Author : Ilkka Henrik Mäkinen; Stephen Platt; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; assisted suicide; comparative studies; cross-sectional studies; culture; Durkheim; Europe; history; law; modernization; Parsons; suicide; suicide rates; Sweden; theories; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

   Abstract : The theme of this thesis is suicide mortality in its various aspects, seen from an international, European perspective. It questions the existence of social (structural) concomitants to suicide mortality and investigates attitudes towards and legislation concerning suicide, as well as some historical processes pertaining to their development. READ MORE