Search for dissertations about: "sociocultural history"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 swedish dissertations containing the words sociocultural history.

  2. 1. Broken Order : Shapeshifting as Social Metaphor in Early Medieval England and Ireland

    Author : Gwendolyne Knight; Roger Andersson; Cordelia Heß; Lena Rohrbach; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Anglo-Saxon England; Early Christian Ireland; Shapeshifting; Historical Anthropology; Early Medieval European History; History; historia;

    Abstract : Shapeshifting narratives appear in cultures all over the world, throughout human history. At each point, these narratives give expression to culturally contingent anxieties and preoccupations. READ MORE

  4. 2. Negotiating Imperial Rule : Colonists and Marriage in the Nineteenth-century Black Sea Steppe

    Author : Julia Malitska; Per Bolin; Mark Bassin; Ulla Rosén; Södertörns högskola; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Colonization; imperialism; imperial borderlands; German colonists; migration; marriage regime; agency; marriage; household formation; Ukraine; Black Sea steppe; Russian empire; nineteenth century; Historical Studies; Historiska studier; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

    Abstract : After falling under the power of the Russian Crown, the Northern Black Sea steppe from the end of eighteenth century crystallized as the Russian government’s prime venue for socioeconomic and sociocultural reinvention and colonization. Vast ethnic, sociocultural and even ecological changes followed. READ MORE

  5. 3. Conflict in Colours : A comparative study of republican and loyalist murals in Belfast

    Author : Fredrika Larsson; Historia; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Nordirland; Historiska perspektiv; Northern Ireland; the Troubles; Historical Narrative; Cultural violence; Symbolic landscapes; Loyalism; Republicanism; Dissident republicanism; Cultural trauma;

    Abstract : Republican and Loyalist Murals in Belfast Abstract Conflict in Colours is a book about the role of cultural violence in maintaining and transferring conflict situations by investigating republican and loyalist murals in Belfast during the Troubles and the Northern Irish peace process. During several decades, the people of Northern Ireland have endured warlike situations before the peace agreement in 1998. READ MORE

  6. 4. Without mast, without sails, without compass : Non-traditional trajectories into higher education and the duality of the folk-market

    Author : Reed T. Curtis; Klara Bolander Laksov; Max Scheja; Fredrik Hertzberg; Rie Thomsen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; educational trajectories; self-efficacy; collective efficacy; sociocultural history; Sweden; neoliberalism; education; university; school choice; career guidance; statist individualism; folkhem; transitions; pragmatism; late modernity; pedagogik; Education;

    Abstract : In 1809, the trajectory of Swedish history and the identities associated with the country changed after Finland was lost to Russia. Swedish General von Döbeln explained that the loss left the nation "without mast, without sails, without compass." The research within this dissertation is not of war but of a similar sense of loss. READ MORE

  7. 5. Psykoteknik : Kulturell fabricering av personlig identitet

    Author : Eriksson Rikard; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; History of psychology; psychotechnics; 20th century Sweden; psychological testing; personal identity; sociocultural values; social studies of science; deconstruction; ethnography of modern thought; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Abstract : This dissertation is a broad socio-cultural study of psychotechnics in Sweden from 1943 to 1969. Using many different sorts of source material, such as psychological tests, public investigations, psychotechnology, articles in news journals, photos and sound recordings, psychotechnics is analysed as a cultural phenomenon. READ MORE