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Scandinavian Culture 7,5 ECTS

Scandinavian Culture 7,5 ECTS. Course Objectives. The students will as a result of the course be expected to : Recognize , distinguish and summarize aspects of Swedish culture. Critically judge aspects of Swedish culture in their historical context.

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Scandinavian Culture 7,5 ECTS

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  1. Scandinavian Culture 7,5 ECTS

  2. Course Objectives The students will as a resultof the course be expectedto: • Recognize, distinguish and summarizeaspectsof Swedish culture

  3. Criticallyjudgeaspectsof Swedish culture in theirhistoricalcontext

  4. Show an understandingof the mostimportantcurrentissues in contemporary Swedish society and be abletodescribehowthesearereflected in popularculture

  5. Outlineaspectsof social engineeringconcerning gender, ethnicity and conceptsof national identity

  6. Scandinavian Culture Three themes: • Nation and nationbuilding • Culture, Heritage and History • Swedishness and Swedish Multiculturalism

  7. Ethnology • Wewillstudyculture from different perspctives. Empirical and theoreticalperspctives

  8. The conceptofculture • High Culture Sophisticatedartistic productswithin art, literature, music, dance, theatre etc.

  9. Representative Culture Specialization of high culture, self representation, directed towards others Museums, exhibitions

  10. Folk culture Customs, traditions, dances, food, music, art

  11. Popularculture Distinguished (normatively) from highculture. Culture for everyonetoconsume and enjoy Media, film, literature, art etc

  12. The anthropologicalconceptofculture A scientificconceptusedtodescribe and understand rules, norms, values, habits etcofeverydaylife

  13. Culture in an anthropological sense Sharedand learned Whatwe do butseldomspeekof

  14. Wewillhandlescandinavianculture in all theseaspects

  15. Shedule Spring 2012 Week 3 - 5 How Sweden became Swedish? Building a nation and national identity 19/1 9.15 -12.00 Introduction - Building a nation – symbols, genres, social cohesion 25/1 9.15 – 12.00 “How Sweden became Swedish”Folkhemmet: The welfare state takes place, modernity, Swedish social engineering 1/2 9.15- 12.00 Welfare institutions: The national project in Swedish Schools and childrens culture

  16. V6-8 Culture, Heritage and History 8/2 9.15-12.00 Ethnology, The study of culture, people, everyday life, habits and culture: Swedish Familylife 15/2 9.15-12.00 Cultural Hertitage, the invention of traditions, authenticity, the production of Swedish culture. 24/2 ALL DAY Excursion to Lund (optional) guided tour through the university district and Kulturen

  17. V9-12 ”Swedish” Multiculturalism 29/2 9.15-12.00 Sweden in a global world. From “Folkhem” to a multicultural society. A history of Migration 7/3 9.15 -12.00 Diversity – gender, ethnicity, age. What does it mean being “Swedish”? 14/3 9.15-12.00 Self-images and representation in contemporary popular culture. Film screening. 23/3 End of term. Paper to be handed in via e-mail.

  18. How Sweden became Swedish? • Nation • What is a nation?

  19. State • Constitution • Territory • Citizens • Law • Gouvernment • Rights and duties

  20. Nation Onepeople, sharedculture and sharedlanguage The nation – common roots and history

  21. As nation stateswearesimilar • National artefacts – national anthem, flag

  22. As national cultureswearedifferent • The specific national history • A historyofheroes, tradgedies, comedies, freedom…

  23. Imaginedcommunities • Theory and concepts By Benedict Anderson

  24. Three paradoxes of nationalism 1. The objectivemodernityof nations to the historian´seye vs. Theirsubjectiveantiquity in the eyesof nationalists.

  25. 2. The formal universialityofnationality as a socio-culturalconcept – in the modern worldeveryonecan, shouldwill ”have” a nationality, as he or she ”has´” a gender – vs. The irremediableparticularityofitsconcrete manifestations, suchthat, by definition, ”Greek” nationality is suigeneris.

  26. 3. The ”political” powerof nationalisms vs. Theirphilosophicalpoverty and evenincoherence. In otherwords, unlikemostother –isms, nationalism has never produceditsown grand thinkers. It would make thingseasierifonetreated nationalism as if it belongedwith ”kinship” and religion” ratherthanwith ”liberalism or ”fascism”

  27. Benedicts definition of nation: • It is an imaginedpoliticalcommunity – and imagined as bothinherentlylimited and sovereign

  28. Imagined • Memberswill never know, meet/hearofmostoftheirfellowmembers, yet in the mindsofeachlives the imaginationoftheircommunion.

  29. Imagined as Limited • The nation has finite, ifelasticboundaries, beyondwhich lie other nations.

  30. Imagined as Sovereign • The conceptwasborn in an age in whichEnlightment and revolution weredestroying the legitimacyof the divinely ordained, hierarchial dynastic realm.

  31. Imagined as Community • Regardlessof the actualinequality and exploatationthatmayprevail in each, the nation is alwaysconcieved as a deep, horizontalcomeradeship. • Ultimately it is thisfraternitythat makes it possible, over the pasttwocenturies for som many millions ofpeople, not so muchtokill, as willinglytodie for suchlimitedimaginings.

  32. Imagineddoes not meanfalse, rathercreativity • Nationalism a strong homogenisizing force, emotional and obvious • Beloning, community and heritage

  33. Nexttime:Howtobuild a Nation Wewill talk about the Swedish national project, both the historyof Sweden and the activecreationofunit, community and Swedish identity. Special features: • National Romanticism • Folkhem and Functionalism • Social Engineering

  34. This is Sweden • 1996 • Presentation http://www.google.se/search?tbm=isch&hl=sv&source=hp&biw=1680&bih=853&q=Sverige&gbv=2&oq=Sverige&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=4219l5594l0l10390l7l7l0l2l2l0l172l516l2.3l5l0 • Symbols • Genre (what kind of ”story” self image) • Music • People (what kind of persons) • Values

  35. Whenweunitewithin a ”we” weuse different kinds ofdoing. For exampleweuseartefacts as symbols of different kinds. Everyone in the we-groupknowsthese symbols. Sometimestheyaresecrettooutsiders, sometimestheyareknowntoeveryone. Theyareoftenrestricted in the right ofuse. Youmayuse part of the timeto go outof the room or buildingtofind symbols thatyouthinkareusefultodefine a special ”we”. Otherwaysofdefining a ”we” and itsbelonging/exclusion is through the constructionof the groupshistory or the rulestowhich the memberhavetoabide. Your task is todefine different ”we”. • We (national identity) • We (your profession) • We men/women • We old Young • WeEuropean, African, Asianetc • Or anyotherwe Discuss: What marks the ”we”? What is not compatiblewith the ”we”? Is it possibletodescribe a ”we” without a ”them”? In whatrespectcan a memberof the ”we” break rules? Whocan break rules? Prepare a summaryofyourdiscussionto be presented to the otherparticipants.

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