Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:30:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Munir Lutfe Ayoub.pdf: 3966670 bytes, checksum: db023a659f46afa4192b0dd071e22edb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-10-09 / The present study seek to understand by means of a methodology compared between the literary and archaeological sources, the changes that have taken place in the cult practices that allowed the forging of ideals, the legitimacy and the formation of the functions of Scandinavian monarchies, besides searching the feelings and anxieties that those men had for their gods. It was finally evidenced the importance of ancient Nordic traditions and Norse mythology as an instrument of legitimacy as well as the creation of social powers, contributing to the understanding of a period when rite, myth and social powers were in full connection, and such relations would mark the Viking Period in Scandinavia. That goal time is inserted between the VIII and X centuries. In the first century the first Scandinavian royals appeared and in the second one the Scandinavian people began to undergo the process of conversion to Christianity / O presente trabalho por meio de uma metodologia comparada entre as fontes literárias e arqueológicas buscou compreender as modificações ocorridas nas praticas cultuais que possibilitaram a forja de ideais, de legitimação e a formação das funções das realezas escandinavas, além de buscar as funções e ânsias que esses homens tinham sobre seus deuses. Evidenciando por fim a importância dos antigos costumes nórdicos e da mitologia nórdica como instrumento de legitimação e de criação de poderes sociais, contribuindo para a compreensão de um período onde rito, mito e os poderes sociais estavam em plena conexão, relações essas que marcariam o período Viking na Escandinávia. Tendo assim sua baliza temporal inserida entre os séculos VIII e X sendo o primeiro o século no qual surgiram as primeiras realezas escandinavas e o segundo o século no qual os povos escandinavos começaram a sofrer um processo de conversão ao cristianismo

The purpose of the study “Representation of gender in Swedish youth TV series” is to illustrate how genders are represented in Swedish youth tv-series. Young people are influenced by the media when creating their identities and shaping their views of the world. The media reproduces gender sterotypes which affects young people’s perception of gender and sexuality, which is why it’s important to analyse what kind of gender representations are visible in popular culture today. Earlier research shows most movies reproduce gender stereotypes and homosexual characters are often discriminated against or not displayed at all. The TV series analysed are the popular Netflix shows Young Royals and Störst av allt (Quicksand). Our research questions were “How aremasculinites and femininites represented in the tv-series based on norms and stereotypes? and “What similarities and differences in these representations can be found in the two tv-series?” The theoretical framework used is gender theory, representation theory, feminist film theory as well as masculinites and stereotypes. A list of stereotypical male and female traits was compiled to be used when analysing the characters. By using the method multimodal critical discourse analysis five analytical tools were chosen, which were lexical choices, attributes, setting, body language and image representation. These were used when analysing the first season of Young Royals and Störst av allt which were six episodes each. The analysis resulted in 16 thematic discourses that illustrate the gender representationes in the series. The study found that both series showed stereotypical and non-stereotypical traits in the characters. Some of the non-stereotypical discourses were “men as caring and thoughtful”, “women in positions of power” and “men expressing emotions”. Some of the prominent stereotypical discourses were “men in positions of power”, “violent men”, “women as victims”   and “women as caring and thoughtful”. The non-stereotypical gender representations indicate that society’s view and expectations on the genders may be changing and developing.