<p>The object of this paper is concerned with the subject youth and politics. The aim of the paper is to study what influence our today modern societies has between two social landscapes, Greece and Sweden and try to give an explanation to why young peoples political engagement is different in the two countries. To fulfil my aim of this paper I have used a few questions, these questions will give me an insight in how young people look at politics, what their interests are and if they feel that they can and ought to act political. The theoretical starting points I’ve used I’ve chosen with reflection to look at the social landscape we live in and its changes over time. I also want to see how it has affected people and the society. Within the framework of two historical processes I study development and trends in these two landscapes.</p><p>The study is a case study with background from an earlier study about young people’s political awareness and engagement at CEFOS Research centre in Göteborg. Were young people from 28 countries contributed. I have delimit my study to two countries from this research and tried to find out why the results were different in these countries by including perspective of the social landscape in which these young people live their every day life. The analysis is built on 18 interviews, which two of them were group interviews of five people. The results of my interviews matched the theories that I had selected and shows that the changes within the social landscape, also changes the individual apprehension and point of view, not only to the individual but also to the collective influence in society. The results is divergent in the two countries and my conclusion to this is that Sweden has been influenced by modernity for a long period while Greece is going through that process right now and still has a traditional way of thinking.</p> / <p>Denna uppsats behandlar ämnet ungdomar och politik. Syftet med denna studie är att studera vilken effekt vår tids samhällsutveckling har i två sociala landskap, Grekland och Sverige samt att försöka ge en förklaring till varför ungdomars politiska engagemang skiljer sig åt mellan länderna.</p><p>De frågeställningar jag behandlar ska ge mig en insikt i hur ungdomar ser på politik, vilket intresse de hyser och om de anser att de bör och kan agera politiskt.</p><p>De teoretiska utgångspunkterna jag använt mig av valde jag med reflektion att försöka se på det sociala landskapet vi lever i och dess förändringar över tid. Samt att se hur dessa har påverkat individen och samhället. Inom ramverket av två historiska processer studerar jag utvecklingen och trender i dessa två sociala landskap.</p><p>Studien är en fallstudie med bakgrund av en tidigare forskningsstudie om Ungdomars politiska medvetenhet och engagemang från CEFOS Forskningscentrum i Göteborg, där ungdomar i 28 länder medverkade. Jag har avgränsat mig till två länder i denna forskning och har försökt se varför resultaten skiljde sig åt mellan dessa genom att ta upp perspektiv kring det sociala landskapet som ungdomarna upplever sin vardag i. Analysen bygger på 18 intervjuer varav två gruppintervjuer på fem individer i var.</p><p>Resultaten av mina intervjuer stämmer bra in på de teorier jag valde att använda och visar att det sociala landskapets förändringar, även förändrar individens inställning och uppfattning om ens egna samt kollektivets påverkan i samhället. Resultaten skiljer sig åt i de olika länderna och min slutsats gällande detta utgörs främst av att Sverige under en längre period har genomgått en omvandling till ett mer modernt socialt landskap medan Grekland fortfarande genomgår processen till att bli modernt och har på så vis kvar många traditionella tankesystem.</p>

The object of this paper is concerned with the subject youth and politics. The aim of the paper is to study what influence our today modern societies has between two social landscapes, Greece and Sweden and try to give an explanation to why young peoples political engagement is different in the two countries. To fulfil my aim of this paper I have used a few questions, these questions will give me an insight in how young people look at politics, what their interests are and if they feel that they can and ought to act political. The theoretical starting points I’ve used I’ve chosen with reflection to look at the social landscape we live in and its changes over time. I also want to see how it has affected people and the society. Within the framework of two historical processes I study development and trends in these two landscapes. The study is a case study with background from an earlier study about young people’s political awareness and engagement at CEFOS Research centre in Göteborg. Were young people from 28 countries contributed. I have delimit my study to two countries from this research and tried to find out why the results were different in these countries by including perspective of the social landscape in which these young people live their every day life. The analysis is built on 18 interviews, which two of them were group interviews of five people. The results of my interviews matched the theories that I had selected and shows that the changes within the social landscape, also changes the individual apprehension and point of view, not only to the individual but also to the collective influence in society. The results is divergent in the two countries and my conclusion to this is that Sweden has been influenced by modernity for a long period while Greece is going through that process right now and still has a traditional way of thinking. / Denna uppsats behandlar ämnet ungdomar och politik. Syftet med denna studie är att studera vilken effekt vår tids samhällsutveckling har i två sociala landskap, Grekland och Sverige samt att försöka ge en förklaring till varför ungdomars politiska engagemang skiljer sig åt mellan länderna. De frågeställningar jag behandlar ska ge mig en insikt i hur ungdomar ser på politik, vilket intresse de hyser och om de anser att de bör och kan agera politiskt. De teoretiska utgångspunkterna jag använt mig av valde jag med reflektion att försöka se på det sociala landskapet vi lever i och dess förändringar över tid. Samt att se hur dessa har påverkat individen och samhället. Inom ramverket av två historiska processer studerar jag utvecklingen och trender i dessa två sociala landskap. Studien är en fallstudie med bakgrund av en tidigare forskningsstudie om Ungdomars politiska medvetenhet och engagemang från CEFOS Forskningscentrum i Göteborg, där ungdomar i 28 länder medverkade. Jag har avgränsat mig till två länder i denna forskning och har försökt se varför resultaten skiljde sig åt mellan dessa genom att ta upp perspektiv kring det sociala landskapet som ungdomarna upplever sin vardag i. Analysen bygger på 18 intervjuer varav två gruppintervjuer på fem individer i var. Resultaten av mina intervjuer stämmer bra in på de teorier jag valde att använda och visar att det sociala landskapets förändringar, även förändrar individens inställning och uppfattning om ens egna samt kollektivets påverkan i samhället. Resultaten skiljer sig åt i de olika länderna och min slutsats gällande detta utgörs främst av att Sverige under en längre period har genomgått en omvandling till ett mer modernt socialt landskap medan Grekland fortfarande genomgår processen till att bli modernt och har på så vis kvar många traditionella tankesystem.

This study looks at the roles and functions of heraldry in two parish churches in medieval Sweden. The study does this by hermeneutically relating the extant heraldic inventories of the churches to their historical contexts, specifically the view of the church as a multidimensional space and the understanding of the church as part of a constructed social landscape. Furthermore, the study aims to determine the relationship between heraldic art in churches and the legal relationship between that church and the armiger. These legal relationships include that of a bishop to his canon collegiate, the king to the church, and the patronus to his church. Lastly the study also attempts to determine the extent of the liturgical role of heraldry in these two churches by relating the extant heraldic inventories of the churches to the local liturgy of the early 16th century. The results show that heraldry has been used to legitimise power and give a sense of continuity in the transfer of power over the churches. The heraldry has also been found to express piety by allowing the armiger to be heraldically present within the chancel and in liturgical connection to the Eucharist. The study makes no explicit link between any form of heraldry in the church and any particular legal relationship to said church, but maintains that the award of patronage over a church and of having heraldic presence in a church both stem from donations to the church and its works. The study links the liturgical role of heraldry in the burial rite of a knight with St. Briget of Sweden’s view of the knights shield as a symbol for their vow to protect the church and her ideals. The subsequent tradition of mounting a deceased knight’s shield in the church is then interpreted as a continual sign of that vow and of the knight’s continued heraldic presence withing the parish. The presence of arma Christi within the extant heraldic inventories can be interpreted as a manifestation of the ideals of the church, while other coats of arms are subservient to that of the Christ. Arma Christi furthermore serve to legitimise heraldic presence as mystical presence in a way similar to liturgical icons.