The history of ideas about Moriori origins, settlement, and culture has yet to be charted across the entire twentieth century. The thesis' primary goal is to begin the documentation of this in detail. It examines the two key strands of thought that have shaped this history of ideas: that Moriori were the remnants of a mainland pre-Maori people, and that they were the descendants of Maori voyagers. These sets of ideas existed simultaneously, which led to an intellectual history shaped by intersecting curves formed through long-ranging debate rather than a single linear progression of thought. Each strand of thought comprised several threads, or ideas about Moriori history that altered over time. The thesis traces this history of ideas about Moriori origins, settlement, and culture through texts, from Alexander Shand's ethnological analysis The Moriori People of the Chatham Islands, published in 1911, to Barry Barclay's 2000 documentary, The Feathers of Peace. It establishes the ideas advanced in key texts on Moriori history, explores the context in which these texts were produced, and suggests a link between shifts in debate and contemporary relations between Maori and Pakeha.

Carolina Wallerström: Matematikundervisning i första klass; Likheter och skillnader i hur lärare hanterat undervisning efter elevers olika nivåer i fyra tidsperioder mellan 1962–2011. Uppsala Universitet: Inst. för idé och lärdomshistoria, c-uppsats, vårterminen 2018. Syftet är att undersöka hur undervisningen i skolan har hanterat elevers olika nivåer inom matematiken under fyra olika tidsperioder mellan 1962 – 2011. Här studeras vad som generellt beskriver vad som karaktäriseras med respektive tidsperiod med hjälp av nyckelord. Nyckelorden baseras på vad i materialet, som primärt är lärarhandledningar, har ansetts tydligast att komma fram ur materialet gällande vad i undervisningen eller i undervisningens metoder som är centralt för att hantera elevers olika nivå i undervisningen. Undersökningen tar stöd genom, Anders Burman och Esbjörn Larsson, som givit ett brett historiskt perspektiv på skolan genom pedagogikens historia respektive skolsystemets historia. Daniel Lövheim har gett en mer specifik bild av debatten om den naturvetenskapliga debatten under 1900 talet och val av metod i denna undersökning bygger till stor del på hur han beskriver att han har valt sina teman. Från det stora och breda perspektiv som Burman och Larsson tillfört till den naturvetenskapliga debatten som tillförts genom Lundin finns det möjlighet att gå in mer specifikt på ämnet matematik genom filosofen Sverker Lundin och Anders Prytz, lektor i didaktik. De har båda undersökt matematiken i skolan varav Lundin har kritiserat ett flertal olika områden inom matematiken och Prytz fokuserat på styrningen av matematiken i skolan på olika sätt. Genom att jämföra hur lärare instruerats till att hantera olika elevers nivåer att lära sig matematikundervisningen i de olika perioderna, som är undersökningens syfte kan man se skillnader och likheter under perioderna. Den första perioderna handlar om att få möjlighet att räkna ett stort antal uppgifter efter nivå och de två senare perioderna om att få möjlighet att ta sin tid och under den fjärde perioden som undersökts betonas vikten av att varje elev känner sig självsäker och lust kring matematiken.

Intellectual historians have been reluctant to include works of fiction into their field of concerns. Through a reading of Thomas Bernhard’s novel Korrektur (1975), this thesis traces how the philosophical theme of intersubjectivity is investigated in the context of fiction. Particular emphasis is placed on the formal elements of the prose, and on how these elements interact with philosophical themes in the text. Bernhard is seen to assert the destructive impact of interpersonal contact; to severely critique the human effort at understanding other people; and to elaborate a deeply skeptical attitude towards the capacity of language to capture reality.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate how the Swedish government socially constructed its citizens in a number of opinion polls during the year 1999. The last decade of the twentieth century was a bewildering one in a Swedish context, that included a number of new presuppositions for the Swedish society. The economic crisis that was rooted in the 1990s was slowly stabilizing, while new governance and organizational structures were introduced into the welfare system. Sweden, among a number of other states were increasingly computerized which was met with both anticipated delight and some concern. The widespread computerization involved possible problems that could be linked to the millennium change, which in the vernacular was referred to as the Millennium Bug. Through discourse analysis, this paper examines six citizen studies initiated during the years 1999-2000. The studies had the purpose to examine the Swedish citizen's perception and attitude towards the turn of the millennium. Using Thomas Osborne’s and Nikolas Roses’ theory of opinion polls active part in the constitution of the general opinion this study analyses phenomena such as anxiety levels, the perceptive human being, the notion of consensus and what elements that compose threats to society. This study shows that the Swedish government through these initiates public opinion polls attenuated the civic interest and concern of the millennial shift at the expense of other social problems.

The essay is an analysis of the ideas about problems and possibilities concerning the northern region in Sweden, as presented and discussed by authors and journalists Ludvig Nordström and Po Tidholm, in their books Norrland i stöpsleven (1937) and Norrland (2014). The essay draws on theoretical concepts such as center and periphery, Orientalism, progress, as understood by Bernt Skovdahl, and Nietzsche’s notion of ressentiment, as employed by Wendy Brown. The essay offers a discourse analysis of the representations and images of Norrland that the authors present in their works. Nordström portrays Norrland as a region with a bright future, predicated on its inhabitants’ capacity to improve their primitive mentality and start acting as entrepreneurs in the industrial age. Tidholm, though, is much more pessimistic: with bitterness and resignation, he sees a region that no one no longer cares about and where the people suffer from inferiority complex. In a comparison between the two authors three main themes are identified and developed. These are: utopia and dystopia, development and decline, and center and periphery. The essay concludes that Nordström’s and Tidholm’s views are historically conditioned. Nordström’s texts reflect notions of progress typical of modernity, whereas, produced in an era when all grand narratives have lost their credibility, Tidholm’s texts fail to imagine any potential alternatives to the situation he laments.

The purpose of this study is to analyze today's political development from a hypermodern and metamodern perspective. The starting point has been to answer the question of what comes after postmodernism and the ambition has been to contribute to an increased understanding of the contemporary world. The theoretical approach is based on a social constructivist and evolutionary biological perspective. The method is multidisciplinary and based in discourse analysis and memetics. A broad text definition has formed the basis for the selection of the materials of the study. A text is seen as a web of meaning and both literary works, internet videos and podcasts have been used as a source of information.  The results show that it is not clear if hypermodernism or metamodernism will be the dominant paradigm in the future. On the contrary, this study points to the conclusion that hypermodernism can lead to unsustainable social development because of increased mental illnesses and escalated climate change. However, it also suggests that metamodernism can contribute to a constructive development by creating reconciliation and understanding between different perspectives. In this way, today's increasing polarization can be counteracted. This essay also shows that the present is characterized by a strong will to explain the world in grand meta-narratives. New political conflicts have been erupting and many traditional dichotomies have been erased, as Internet has changed the conditions for human organization and communication. At the same time a vacuum has been created because neither the modern nor the postmodern ideas succeed to take a hegemonic grasp of the contemporary. Nor do they seem to be able to establish a sufficiently credible basis for the future. This means that we have ended up in a situation where different memes deconstruct each other without creating a base for a new ground. Postmodernism deconstructs modernism while new movements deconstruct postmodernism. One consequence of this is that the contemporary world is increasingly characterized by uncertainty, confusion and fear. All of these factors indicate that society is currently changing from one paradigm to another. However, it is not yet clear what the new paradigm will be. / Syftet med denna studie är att analysera dagens politiska utveckling utifrån ett hypermodernt och metamodernt perspektiv. Utgångspunkten har varit att svara på frågan vad som kommer efter postmodernismen och förhoppningen är att denna uppsats ska bidra med en ökad förståelse för vår samtid. Den teoretiska ansatsen är grundad i ett socialkonstruktivistiskt och evolutionsbiologiskt perspektiv. Metoden är tvärvetenskaplig och baseras i diskursanalys och memetik. En bred textdefinition har legat till grund för urvalet av material. En text ses som en väv av mening och både litterära verk, internetvideos och podcasts har använts som underlag i denna undersökning.  Denna studie visar att det har uppstått ett vakuum i dagens samhälle där inga idéströmningar lyckas ta ett hegemoniskt grepp om samtiden och etablera en trovärdig grund för framtiden. Olika idéströmningar underminerar varandra utan att etablera något nytt. Postmodernismen dekonstruerar modernismen samtidigt som nya rörelser dekonstruerar postmodernismen. En konsekvens av detta är att allt fler människor känner sig osäkra, förvirrade och rädda. Resultatet från denna studie visar att det än så länge inte är uppenbart ifall hypermodernismen eller metamodernismen kommer att utvecklas till att bli ett dominerande paradigm framöver. Tvärtom pekar denna undersökning på att hypermodernismen kan leda till en ohållbar samhällsutveckling där den psykiska ohälsan ökar och klimatförändringarna eskalerar. Metamodernismen kan möjligtvis bidra till en konstruktiv utveckling genom att skapa försoning och förståelse mellan olika perspektiv. På så sätt kan dagens ökande polarisering motverkas. Denna uppsats har även kommit fram till att de stora berättelsernas död som har präglat postmodernismen har bytts ut till en stark vilja att förklara världen i stora metaberättelser. Dessutom har nya politiska konfliktlinjer skapats och många traditionella dikotomier suddats ut i takt med att internet har förändrat förutsättningarna för mänsklig organisering och kommunikation. Alla dessa faktorer pekar på att samhället just nu befinner sig i ett skifte från ett paradigm till ett annat. Än så länge är det dock inte tydligt vad detta nya paradigm är.

This study examines the development of mäns våld mot kvinnor (men's violence against women) in Sweden from a phrase to a category by examining the phrase’s frequency, meaning and application in the Swedish state's public investigations (SOU) and media in the years 1994-2015. The study shows that the frequency of the phrase increase and the category develops during 2010’s decade when the phrase men’s violence against women is applied as collective term, on structures and social mechanisms. Men’s violence against women as a category in the Swedish politics include equality, attitudes, gender, same-sex relationships and other types of violence and crimes such as honor violence, child violence and stalking.

In this thesis I argue that the concept of actualization is a useful point of entry for understanding what the German philosopher Axel Honneth does in regard to the concept of ethical life [Sittlichkeit] from Hegel’s Philosophy of Right. Actualization can be understood as an a historical contextualization, which in this case entails using Hegel’s concept of ethical life to cast light on contemporary political and philosophical issues. Using a notion of social freedom, where individual freedom is understood in such a manner where it only can be realized in cooperation with others, Honneth actualizes ethical life as a society where institutions contain the norms and customs that make possible the realization of social freedom. With this understanding of ethical life Honneth uses his actualization for the purpose of critiquing the social order from a more sound and immanent perspective than those critiques based on abstract notions of right or morality. His actualization makes it possible to take the Hegelian notion of ethical life and turn it into a tool for critiquing current institution for not realizing the norms and customs that they immanently should. He can argue for a moral notion of the market where exchanges must be so that everyone benefits, and that strong trade unions and consumer cooperatives are necessary for this to be the case. Regarding the political situation his actualized notion of ethical life isused to expand upon the theory of deliberative democracy strengthening it through showing that social freedom is a requirement for it and that it cannot be realized only in the political sphere and must be realized throughout the entire ethical society. He thus compliments the theory of deliberative democracy with a broader notion including both the family and the market as necessary components. Concluding I argue that Honneth’s actualizations shows that it’s possible and a worthwhile endeavour to return to Hegel’s political philosophy and the notion of ethical life