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Kön och identitet i förändring
- 1991
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This is the third of a series of reports from the research program Youth culture in Sweden, FUS. In the article ”Narciss and the Other. Fissions and fusions of the gender order”, Johan Fornäs uses the theme of narcissism to discuss a range of theoretical issues on gender and identity production, and argues for a polydimensional, relational, positional and historical perspective. Sabina Cwejman analyses ”Constants and changes in the teenage girl life world”, and reviews different studies of how social power structures and socialisation forms are reproduced and transformed through modernization. In ”Deconstructed masculinity”, Margot Bengtsson discerns five traditions of psychological theories on gender: academic ”scientific” psychology, psychoanalysis, women’s studies, the gender perspective, and modernization theory. Kirsten Drotner’s ”Cultural gender and modern youth” sees gender production as a discourse and a negotiation, and explores some new and gender specific youth cultural tendencies in the relation between different media and between forms of expression. ”From sex role critique to gender analysis. Gender oriented research on youth fiction” is the title of the final text, written by Ulf Boëthius, who describes five positions and phases in gender related studies of youth fiction: sex role studies, critique of ideology, gynocriticism, reception theory and gender analysis.
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Metodfrågor i ungdomskulturforskningen
- 1990
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This is the first of a series of reports from the research program Youth culture in Sweden, FUS. It contains five texts on methodological issues, three written by the members of the FUS central group that edits this series, and two by other researchers who participate in the network of the program. The first article, by the youth culture researcher and program initiator Johan Fornäs from Stockholm, discusses some theoretical, empirical, methodological and organizational aspects of interdisciplinary and comparative cultural studies, and argues for a polydimensional ”art of thinking more than one thing at a time”. The sociologist Magdalena Czaplicka from Uppsala dives into the problems of designing and interpreting quantitative data, especially with respect to the dimension of time, while the media researcher Keith Roe from Göteborg treats the problem of validity in both quantitative and qualitative studies. Sabina Cwejman, a sociologist in Göteborg, sums up the qualitative tradition within social sciences. Ulf Boëthius, a literary researcher in Stockholm and like Cwejman and Fornäs member of the FUS central group, finally gives an overview over some general turning points and tendencies in the humanities during the last decades, from positivism in the 60s, over marxism, structuralism and hermeneutics in the 70s, up to the ambivalent postmodern and deconstructionist break with totalities in the 80s.
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Unga stilar och uttrycksformer
- 1992
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This is the fourth of a series of reports from the research program Youth Culture in Sweden, FUS. In the first article, Johan Fornäs discusses the production of style as a communicative praxis. On the basis of a general theory of the materiality, form and meaning of symbols and language, he analyses the functions of, as well as the relationships between, different cultural forms of expressions (including words, pictures and music). In so doing, he touches upon theories of media, popular culture, style, subcultures and aesthetics. Bo Reimer’s article is focused on the concept of lifestyle in relation to youth and modernity. He discusses the hypothesis of the individualization of everyday life as well as the question of postmodern lifestyles. Hillevi Ganetz combines a social, psychodynamic and aesthetic perspective in order to analyse how young women express themselves through the interplay between fashion and personal style. While earlier research has mainly focused on the role of fashion and looks in public spaces, Ganetz instead focuses on domestic spaces and on arenas that crosscut the private/public distinction; arenas such as changing-rooms in department stores. Ulf Boëthius analyses young people’s relationships to lite-rary texts. He discusses both the reading and writing of young people, and outlines a multidimensional research field that includes books, magazines, diaries, comics and rock lyrics, related to variables such as age, gender, class, ethnicity and geographical location. In the final article, Leni Filipson and Jan Nordberg from the unit of audience research at the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation give an empirical description of media use and cultural practices among Swedish youth.
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Ungdom och kulturell modernisering
- 1990
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This is the second of a series of reports from the research program Youth culture in Sweden, FUS. In its first text, the youth culture researcher and program initiator Johan Fornäs from Stockholm tries to construct a polydimensional theory of modernity, mainly based upon the works of Jürgen Habermas and Thomas Ziehe. He analyzes three different dimensions: objective, social, cultural and subjective levels; early, middle and late phases of the modern; and conceptual forms like modernity, modernization and modernism. Ulf Boëthius, a literary researcher in Stockholm, then shows how the relation between ”high” and ”low” has developed within European culture, from the dicotomization between popular and elite culture after the Middle Ages, over a second dicotomization in the 19th century literary public sphere, up to the recent transgressions within late modern culture. Modernity concepts are shown to be useful for connecting the way turning points and tendencies in youth and popular culture have been discussed by different historians.
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Ungdomar i skilda sfärer
- 1993
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This is the fifth of a series of reports from the research program Youth Culture in Sweden, FUS. In the first article, Johan Fornäs discusses how concepts such as sphere, space, field and institution may be used in order to understand processes of power and resistance. Specific attention is given to thinkers such as Habermas, Foucalt, Bourdieu and Willis, but Fornäs also discusses more recent feminist theory as well as theories of ethnicity and identity. In the second article, Magdalena Czaplicka analyses young people’s trajectories through the educational system and into the labour market. She focuses on how the choices and opportunities given to youth are structured by factors such as class and gender. Anders Löfgren applies the concepts of life project and arena on identity formation. Through the use of ideas from social theory and cultural geography, he argues that life projects in late modernity, although still grounded in local environments, are becoming more and more globalised. Mats Lieberg discusses the importance of public spaces for young people’s entrances into adulthood. He also analyses how young people make use of public spaces in their everyday life practices. Bo Reimer discusses the role of the mass media for young people in everyday life. He focuses on how the electronic media have changed social behaviour, and on how young people act – and react – in an environment saturated by the mass media. Ulf Boëthius discusses youth, popular culture and media through the use of the concept of moral panics. In an historical overview, he shows how the concept may be applied to a number of heated debates and conflicts centrered around youth and popular culture that have taken place during the latest century. He also discusses whether such panics still are possible in late modernity. Finally, Thomas Ziehe analyses the effects of modernization and rationalization in the spheres of education and science. He specifically focuses on the self-reflexivity which he argues cannot be avoided anywhere in late modernity.
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Ungdomskultur i Sverige
- 1994
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This is the sixth and final report from the research program Youth Culture in Sweden, FUS. The volume is divided into four themes: gender and identity, spheres and institutions, styles and forms of expressions, and modernisation and history. In an introduction, Johan Fornäs presents the four themes and locates FUS within the Swedish, Nordic and international fields of research on youth culture.Four articles then focus on gender and identity: Thomas Johansson conducts a critical analysis of the concept of narcissism. Hedvig Ekerwald analyses how sexuality is portrayed in popular culture texts directed to boys and girls, respectively. Anders Löfgren discusses the question of sexual identity in modernity, with a particular focus on the sexual identity of young homosexuals. Yvonne Gunnarsson studies how young girls in the countryside view their futures – remaining in the countryside or moving into more urban areas.The first article on spheres and institutions is written by Helena Wulff. She analyses the role playing and identity reconstruction of young Swedish au pairs, artists and businessmen in New York in the late 1980s. Göran Bolin then examines a specific transnational subculture, devoted to ”video nasties”. Mats Lieberg discusses the problematics of ethnographic fieldwork.The third theme of the report concerns styles and forms of expression. Erling Bjurström and Lars Lilliestam discuss the uses of the concept of style within musicology and social analysis. Mats Franzén focuses on the changing social and cultural meanings of different sports in late modernity. Ulf Lindberg analyses one of the most important but least studied genres consumed by youth: rock lyrics. Eli-sabeth Tegner relates new youth cultures to each other: house, rave and cyberpunk. Ulla-Britt Kotsinas studies the uses of language among different groups of young people in Stockholm.In the final section of the book – modernisation and history – Hillevi Ganetz uses the concept of intertextuality in order to compare a poem of the early 20th century poet Edith Södergran with a rock lyric by a contemporary artist, Eva Dahlgren. Peter Dahlén discusses the relationship between young boys and their fathers as portrayed in Swedish film between 1930 and 1990. Finally, Ove Sernhede investigates the fascination held by white Swedish youth for Afroamerican culture.
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Report of The Dragonflies at Store Mosse National Park 2001
- 2002
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- During July and August 2001 I carried out practical training at Store Mosse National Park. I collected dragonflies between weeks 30 and 34. All my collecting was of the adult insects - the imagines, and my aims were as follows:- to obtain a species list of dragonflies inhabiting the site.- to estimate the frequency of each species recorded. Identification was carried out in Sweden using a Swedish reference book, (Sandhall, .ke. 1987) and German references were used in the later compilation of the report. Most species recorded on Store Mosse are also found in Germany, with the exception of Coenagrion armatum. Sometimes there are different subspecies in each country, but their ecology is perhaps similar. However, differences in the annual life cycles and diurnal behaviour are possible. Store Mosse is a favourable place for Dragonflies. The moss has a varied structure, and former peat-diggings are an especially valuable habitat. The peat-diggings have water for most of the year water, but the pools of water are not big enough for some of the enemies of the dragonflies, especially fishes. It is also difficult for fish to disperse to, and survive in an acid habitat where the only input is rain water. In spite of the large number of Dragonflies, the population of each species varies in relative abundance. Some of the species are very rare while others are observed very frequently in all biotopes where dragonflies occur.
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