Search for dissertations about: "ideology"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 276 swedish dissertations containing the word ideology.

  2. 11. Distorted natures : Shifting ideologies of nature in Swedish geography school textbooks 1866-2012

    Author : Sebastian Djup; Mitchell Donald; Ann Grubbström; Jonas Almqvist; Scott Kirsch; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; nature; ideology; ideologies of nature; production of nature; geography school textbooks; geography education geografididaktik ; curriculum studies didaktik ; Geography; Geografi;

    Abstract : Historically, nature has worked and functioned as a powerful idea. Therefore, this thesis provides a historical account of how ideologies of nature have been articulated and transformed in Swedish geography school textbooks (secondary and upper secondary level) from 1866 to 2012. READ MORE

  4. 12. The Imagined versus the Real Other : Multiculturalism and the Representation of Muslims in Sweden

    Author : Aje Carlbom; Socialantropologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Islam; Multiculturalism; Muslims; Integration; Ideology; Hegemony; Discourse; Enclavization; Segregation; Institutionalization; Nationalism; Culture; Difference; Representation; Islamism; Religious rights; Fundamentalism; Individual rights; group rightsights; Sociology; Sociologi; Islam; Integration; Segregation; Nationalism; Representation; Islamism; Fundamentalism;

    Abstract : Are Muslims so different from other citizens in Sweden, that they have to live in segregation and be separated from the rest of society? What is a Muslim, and who is to define this category? In this thesis, the author presents the main actors in this discussion and their ideological positions. The multiculturalist ideology is hegemonic in Sweden on issues concerned with cultural diversity, and intellectuals in various fields of knowledge subscribe to the main moral dictates of this ideology. READ MORE

  5. 13. Ideological roots of climate change denial : Resistance to change, acceptance of inequality, or both?

    Author : Kirsti Maria Jylhä; Nazar Akrami; Mats Fredrikson; Christopher Cohrs; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Climate change denial; ideology; political orientation; social dominance orientation; dominance of nature; personality; gender; Psychology; Psykologi;

    Abstract : Climate change denial has been found to correlate with sociopolitical ideology. The general aim of the present thesis was to investigate this relation, and more specifically to 1) test the unique effects of intercorrelated ideological variables on denial, and 2) investigate the psychological underpinnings of the ideology-denial relation. READ MORE

  6. 14. Early Neo-Assyrian State Ideology : Relations of Power in the Inscriptions and Iconography of Ashurnasirpal II (883–859) and Shalmaneser III (858–824)

    Author : Mattias Karlsson; Olof Pedersén; Gojko Barjamovic; Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Assyriologi; Assyriology;

    Abstract : This study aimed at identifying and discussing Early Neo-Assyrian state ideology through focusing on relations of power in the inscriptions and iconography of Ashurnasirpal II and Shalmaneser III. The relationship between the Mesopotamian deities (“the great gods”), the Assyrian king, and the foreign lands was highlighted in this analysis. READ MORE

  7. 15. Only women bleed? : a critical reassessment of comprehensive feminist social theory

    Author : Helen Lindberg; Jan Olsson; Richard Wolin; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Catharine M. MacKinnon; Anna G. Jonasdottir; Luce Irigaray; Judith Butler; feminism; political feminism; comprehensive feminism; postfeminism; marxism; social theory; ideology; politcal implications; social science; philosophy of science; Political science; Statsvetenskap; Political Science; Statskunskap; Statsvetenskap; Sociology; Filosofi; Gender Studies;

    Abstract : Is there a viable specifically feminist social theory that can serve as heuristic devise in our social research? This thesis is a critical reassessment of the ontological and normative assumptions of four social theories with specific and clear claims of being feminist. These are Catharine M MackInnon’s Radical Feminism, Anna G Jonasdottir’s Theory of Love Power, Luce Irigaray’s Feminism of Sexual Difference and Judith Butler’s Queer Feminism. READ MORE