Nordic Paths to Modernity

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-85745-269-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 585 g

Within the growing attention to the diverse forms and trajectories of modern societies, the Nordic countries are now widely seen as a distinctive and instructive case. While discussions have centred on the ‘Nordic model’ of the welfare state and its record of adaptation to the changing global environment of the late twentieth century, this volume’s focus goes beyond these themes. The guiding principle here is that a long-term historical-sociological perspective is needed to make sense of the Nordic paths to modernity; of their significant but not complete convergence in patterns, which for some time were perceived as aspects of a model to be emulated in other settings; and of the specific features that still set the five countries in question (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland) apart from one another. The contributors explore transformative processes, above all the change from an absolutistmilitary state to a democratic one with its welfarist phase, as well as the crucial experiences that will have significant implications on future developments.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Árnason, Jóhann Páll

Wittrock, Björn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Soziologie und Psychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Jóhann Páll ÁrnasonandBjörn Wittrock

Chapter 1. Nordic Modernity: Origins, Trajectories, Perspective

Bo Stråth

Chapter 2. The Danish Path to Modernity

Uffe Østergård

Chapter 3. Denmark 1740-1940: A Centralised Cultural Community

Niels Kayser Nielsen

Chapter 4. The Making of Sweden

Björn Wittrock

Chapter 5. History, Ethics and the Path to Modernity in Pre-Revolutionary Sweden

Peter Hallberg

Chapter 6. Shifting Knowledge Regimes: The Metamorphoses of Norwegian Reformism

Rune Slagstad

Chapter 7. Alternative Processes of Modernization?

Gunnar Skirbekk

Chapter 8. Nordic Modernity and Finnish Modernity: Similarities and Differences

Risto Alapuro

Chapter 9. The Finnish Grand Duchy and the Paradoxes of the Finnish Political Culture

Henrik Stenius

Chapter 10. Icelandic Anomalies

Jóhann Páll Árnason

Chapter 11. ‘The Time Will Come’: Icelandic Modernity and the Role of Nationalism

Guðmundur Hálfdanarson

Notes on Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Wittrock, Björn
Björn Wittrock is Principal of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), Uppsala, and University Professor at Uppsala University. He has published extensively, currently eighteen books, in the fields of intellectual history, historical social science, social theory and civilizational analysis. Recent publications include: Frontiers of Sociology (co-editor, Brill 2009) and Eurasian Transformations, Tenth to Thirteenth Centuries: Crystallizations, Divergences, Renaissances (co-editor, Brill 2004).

Árnason, Jóhann Páll
Jóhann Páll Árnason is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and Visiting Professor at Charles University, Prague. His research interests focus on comparative historical sociology, with particular emphasis on the comparative sociology of civilizations. Recent publications include: Civilizations in Dispute: Historical Questions and Theoretical Traditions (Brill 2003); Axial Civilizations and World History (co-editor, Brill 2005); and The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (co-editor, Blackwell 2010).

Jóhann Páll Árnason is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and Visiting Professor at Charles University, Prague. His research interests focus on comparative historical sociology, with particular emphasis on the comparative sociology of civilizations. Recent publications include: Civilizations in Dispute: Historical Questions and Theoretical Traditions (Brill 2003); Axial Civilizations and World History (co-editor, Brill 2005); and The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (co-editor, Blackwell 2010).