This essay is a study of Swedish coronation ceremonies in the nineteenth century. The purpose is to answer questions about how coronations where used to demonstrate and legitimise power, and how these ceremonies where changed when the structure of power went through the dramatic changes of the nineteenth century. The coronations that I have chosen to study for this essay starts with the coronation of Gustav III in 1772, then Charles XIV John in 1818, Oscar I in 1844 and the last coronation in Sweden: Oscar II’s in 1873. The essay also makes connections to Gustav V’s choice not to have a coronation when he became king of Sweden in 1907, a choice that marked the very end of coronations in swedish history.  The result of this study shows the connection between coronations and political power, and it supports the theory that ceremony and power where in fact very close. It shows how the coronation ceremonies represents a social structure and a distribution of power, which leads to the conclusion that when these two changes so does the ceremonies. Eventually the change of society reached a level where the coronation ceremonies became obsolete as it could not be adapted to the new structure of power.

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Diss. Stockholm : Stockholms universitet, 2005.

Syfte: Det finns ett bevisat samband mellan organisationskultur och organisatoriskt engagemang. Däremot saknas det kunskap om relationen mellan ritualer och ceremonier, som en del av organisationskultur, och organisatoriskt engagemang och teamengagemang. Syftet med denna studie är att öka förståelsen för hur organisatoriska ritualer och ceremonier påverkar unga anställdas organisatoriska engagemang och teamengagemang.   Metod: En kvalitativ forskningsansats genom 13 stycken semistrukturerade intervjuer, med utgångspunkt i en intervjuguide baserad på tidigare forskning. Empirin presenteras i en tematisk analys och diskuteras därefter i relation till tidigare forskning.   Resultat & slutsats: Ritualer och ceremonier påverkar det organisatoriska engagemanget och teamengagemanget hos unga anställda genom fyra konsekvenser; motivation; gemenskap; förståelse och segregation. Dessa fyra konsekvenser leder till en identifiering som, i olika grad, påverkar engagemanget till organisationen och den egna arbetsgruppen.   Examensarbetets bidrag: Ritualer och ceremonier har en positiv påverkan på unga anställdas organisatoriska engagemang och teamengagemang, genom att konsekvenserna av dem är en del av en identifieringsprocess. Organisationer kan således, genom ritualer och ceremonier, påverka det organisatoriska engagemanget och teamengagemanget. Vi bygger vidare på existerande teorier kring att organisatoriskt engagemang och teamengagemang kan samexistera och inte nödvändigtvis är rivaliserande.   Förslag till fortsatt forskning: Vi efterfrågar forskning av kvantitativ karaktär för att säkerställa relationen mellan ritualer och ceremonier och organisatoriskt engagemang samt teamengagemang. Vi föreslår även vidare kvalitativa studier i andra kontexter för att testa de konsekvenser vi identifierat i denna studie. Även ungas professional commitment och alkoholens förmedlande effekt på engagemangen är av intresse att vidare studera. / Aim: The relationship between organizational culture and organizational commitment has been proven. However, there is a knowledge gap regarding the relationship between rituals and ceremonies and organizational commitment and team commitment. The aim of this study is to increase the understanding of how organizational rituals and ceremonies affect young employees’ organizational commitment and team commitment.   Method: A qualitative study through 13 semi structured interviews, based on an interview guide built from existing theories. The empiricism is presented in a thematic analysis and latter discussed in relation to existing theories.   Result & Conclusions: Rituals and ceremonies affect the organizational commitment and team commitment of young employees through four consequences; motivation, solidarity; comprehension and segregation. These four consequences lead to an identification that, to different degrees, affects the commitment towards the organization and its own team.   Contribution of the thesis: Rituals and ceremonies have a positive impact on the organizational commitment and team commitment of young employees as a result of their consequences, which lead to an identification process. We build on existing theories of organizational commitment and team commitment on how they can coexist and not necessarily be rivals.   Suggestions for future research: We request for future research of quantitative character of the relation between rituals and ceremonies and organizational commitment and team commitment. We suggest further qualitative studies in other contexts with similar research questions to test the consequences identified in this study. Young employees’ professional commitment deserves more attention, as do the mediating effects alcohol seems to have on commitment.

The thesis illustrates the emergence and development of the types of symbolic capital, networks and fields used by the rulers of Easter Island in their exercise of power, and what possible consequences they may have for their habitus. There is no concrete conclusion, but it is possible to see reasonable course of events, where the archaeological finds form the milestones, and it is possible to trace the formation and expansion of a field, created from material assets, inventions, social thoughts and actions. There are signs of variation, or different phases, in the field, over time. The rulers seem to have tried to control the field by, for example, building monuments, such as ahu and statues, or in other words, the authorities of Easter Island managed to create different types of assets. In addition, various organizational forms, sacred places and buildings, taboos and traditions have been used in the form of ceremonies, rituals and sacrifices of various kinds. This symbolic capital has been used by the rulers to steer residents' work and striving in the desired direction, and to create a habitus that everyone feels involved in. This habitus has probably changed when new businesses entered the market.

The 1760's and 1770's saw the emergence of numerous clubs, orders and societies in Stockholm. One of the most extraordinary expressions of this phenomenon was Carl Michael Bellman's Bacchi Orden, a series of semi-public dramatic entertainments chronicling the exploits of the members of Bacchi Orden, a fictional society enrolling several of Stockholm's most notorious drunkards and dedicated to the celebration of Bacchus. Bellman's parodic perspective stands in marked contrast to the self-professed virtuous undertakings of Stockholm's contemporary clubs and orders, whose members were recruited from the social and economic elites and professional and artisanal classes. The main purpose of the dissertation was to study the ceremonial rhetorical practices of Bacchi Orden - speeches, processions and other features designed to enhance the members' loyalty to the society's chosen ideal - and compare them to similar rhetorical traits in several orders and societies of the era in Stockholm to understand what made Bellman's parody work as an entertainment. The dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter introduces Bacchi Orden as a parodic and dramatic work and the eighteenth-century associations as cultural and social institutions. The second chapter outlines the use of ceremonial rhetoric in a number of orders and societies in Stockholm contemporary with Bacchi Orden. Through a combined chronological and thematic approach, the third chapter examines recurring rhetorical patterns in Bellman's parody and the rhetorical implications these patterns might have signaled to his audicence. The ceremonial rhetorical practices of Bacchi Orden may be interpreted as parodying rhetorical commonplaces occuring in all the examined orders' pledges to uphold certain virtues for the benefit of the Swedish nation. This system of virtues - with moderation, patriotism and diligence as cornerstones - is put to parodic use in Bacchi Orden through the different breaches of decorum Bellman allows his characters to act out in their doomed endeavors to combine ceremonial protocol and severe intoxication. As a contrast, friendly and frank companionship among the selected few is the one positive virtue that Bellman's audience can infer from his mock-society. This particular tenet became central to subsequent social clubs, which used Bellman's fiction as a template for their ceremonies.