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Svenskarna om Sverige och svenskheten

The Swedes on Sweden and Swedishness

In English

Författare

Redaktör

  • Carl Reinhold Bråkenhielm

Summary, in English

In the last years there has been an increasing interest among scholars in what is typically Swedish and what is characteristic for a Swede. A typical question would be: what constitutes a Swede? There are various reasons for this growing interest. One of them is the increasing, permanent and progressively more marked appearance of immigrants in Sweden.

In this text I will discuss the concepts ethnicity and nationalism and try to find out how to ”measure Swedishness”. I also look at what have been considered Swedish historically and how others have studied what is typically Swedish.

The research is based on two studies, one from 1995 and one from 1998. Both studies are surveys distributed to a large number of people chosen by random. Language, nature and traditions are important aspects for constituting the Swedish character. Common origin and religion are not. There is a strong cohesion among Swedes and a low degree of acceptance for people of foreign origin. The Swede prefers to live in Sweden and is quite proud of being Swedish.

Publiceringsår

2001

Språk

Svenska

Sidor

105-135

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Världsbild och mening. En empirisk studie av livsåskådningar i dagens Sverige

Dokumenttyp

Del av eller Kapitel i bok

Förlag

Bokförlaget Nya Doxa

Ämne

  • Religious Studies

Nyckelord

  • ethnicity
  • Nationalism
  • national belonging
  • Swedishness
  • religion

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISBN: 91-578-0381-1