Search for dissertations about: "social Darwinism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the words social Darwinism.

2. 1. A Darwinian Theory of International Conflict

   Author : Tarek Oraby; Hans Agné; Jonas Tallberg; John Owen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; international relations; peace and conflict; Universal Darwinism; Neorealism; balance of power; causes of war; Political Science; statsvetenskap;

   Abstract : This dissertation aims to advance the current understanding of the general conditions affecting the likelihood of military conflicts and wars between states. To that end, the dissertation develops a Darwinian theory of international conflict. READ MORE

4. 2. On business relationships as Darwinian systems : an exploration into how Darwinian systems thinking can supportbusiness relationship research

   Author : Johan Kask; Claes Hultman; Jim Andersén; Frans Prenkert; Mats Magnusson; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Business Studies; Företagsekonomi;

   Abstract : The demarcation between different traditions in contemporary research on business relationships reflects theoretical and methodological difficulties in the conceptualization of the nature of business relationships and how such relationships evolve. To tackle these problems, this thesis explores the fruitfulness of regarding business relationships as Darwinian systems, which accentuates kinship between Darwinism and systems thinking, and elaborates a treatment of business relationship transmutation as an iterative dynamic process that does not take the existence of business relationships – or the sequence of developmental stages – for granted. READ MORE

5. 3. Imagining a Place in Nature: Using Evolution to Explain the Early Evolutionary Imagination in Literature

   Author : Emelie Jonsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Victorian literature; Darwinism; evolutionary humanities; naturalistic cosmology; two cultures; mythology;

   Abstract : After Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, Victorian literature overflowed with images of man’s new place in nature. Those images can be explained by modern research that builds on Darwin’s theory: the evolutionary social sciences and evolutionary literary theory. READ MORE

6. 4. Flannery O'Connor's View of the Modern Alienation from Sacramental Religion

   Author : Inger B Törnqvist; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; secular humanism; Social Darwinism; Progressivism; Southern literature; natural theology; Southern Protestant fundamentalism; “Americanism Debate“; modern gnosticism; gnostic; Jansenism; Neoscholasticism; American Catholicism; Sacramental religion; O’Connor; Joyce; psychology; sociology; History of the Christian church; Kristna kyrkans historia;

   Abstract : Mary Flannery O’Connor (1925-64) was born in Savannah, Georgia as the only child of the American Irish Catholics Edward Francis O’Connor, Jr. and Regina Cline O’Connor. In 1952 her first novel Wise Blood, in 1955 the short story collection A Good Man Is Hard to Find, and in 1960 her second novel, The Violent Bear It Away were published. READ MORE

7. 5. Images of an Empire : Chinese Geography Textbooks of the Early 20th Century

   Author : Mats Norvenius; Marja Kaikkonen; Marianne Bastid-Bruguière; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; China; modern schools; geography textbooks; national identity; Chinese minorities; Meiji Japan; nationalism; Sinocentrism; Orientalism; social Darwinism; geographical determinism; racism; militarism; constitutional monarchism; Sinology; sinologi;

   Abstract : In 1901 the Qing regime, in power 1644-1911, took wide-ranging measures to reform the Chinese Empire. Fundamental changes were carried out within the field of education, resulting in the completion of China’s first modern educational system in 1904. READ MORE