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“Från högt till lågt” - En analys av svenska gymnasieläroböcker och deras användande och framställning av termerna kast och globalisering – 1984 - 2011

Olsson, Peter LU (2011) SANK01 20111
Social Anthropology
Abstract (Swedish)
What determines and regulates the content of the textbooks for the Swedish gymnasium (secondary school)? In the present comparative and analytic study Swedish textbooks in history and religious studies are examined. The goal is to analyze and compare the textbook approach, interpretation and usage of the terms caste and globalization, as well as the reasons for these depictions. Eric Wolf and Jonathan Friedmans world system and globalization theories are used as a theoretical frame to interpret the phenomenon.

Globalization has had a profound impact on the Indian caste based society the last 200 years. History shows that the caste system is not a static phenomenon. Swedish textbooks on the other hand tend to focus on... (More)
What determines and regulates the content of the textbooks for the Swedish gymnasium (secondary school)? In the present comparative and analytic study Swedish textbooks in history and religious studies are examined. The goal is to analyze and compare the textbook approach, interpretation and usage of the terms caste and globalization, as well as the reasons for these depictions. Eric Wolf and Jonathan Friedmans world system and globalization theories are used as a theoretical frame to interpret the phenomenon.

Globalization has had a profound impact on the Indian caste based society the last 200 years. History shows that the caste system is not a static phenomenon. Swedish textbooks on the other hand tend to focus on globalization/modernization as an active process and Hindu tradition/caste as static and passive. In many textbooks caste is interpreted ahistorically as a solely religious phenomenon. The global process and modernization is quite often interpreted, in textbooks, as factors leading to social change and betterment of caste oppression. History shows the opposite. The textbooks can be viewed on as both cause and effect, within the global process, in both historical terms and within the frame of the world system theory. (Less)
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author
Olsson, Peter LU
supervisor
organization
course
SANK01 20111
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
caste, globalization, world system theory, social anthropology, textbook analysis
language
Swedish
id
1973655
date added to LUP
2011-06-15 11:06:10
date last changed
2011-06-15 11:06:10
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  abstract     = {{What determines and regulates the content of the textbooks for the Swedish gymnasium (secondary school)? In the present comparative and analytic study Swedish textbooks in history and religious studies are examined. The goal is to analyze and compare the textbook approach, interpretation and usage of the terms caste and globalization, as well as the reasons for these depictions. Eric Wolf and Jonathan Friedmans world system and globalization theories are used as a theoretical frame to interpret the phenomenon.

Globalization has had a profound impact on the Indian caste based society the last 200 years. History shows that the caste system is not a static phenomenon. Swedish textbooks on the other hand tend to focus on globalization/modernization as an active process and Hindu tradition/caste as static and passive. In many textbooks caste is interpreted ahistorically as a solely religious phenomenon. The global process and modernization is quite often interpreted, in textbooks, as factors leading to social change and betterment of caste oppression. History shows the opposite. The textbooks can be viewed on as both cause and effect, within the global process, in both historical terms and within the frame of the world system theory.}},
  author       = {{Olsson, Peter}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{“Från högt till lågt” - En analys av svenska gymnasieläroböcker och deras användande och framställning av termerna kast och globalisering – 1984 - 2011}},
  year         = {{2011}},
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