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| Author | : Eva Maagerø |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Norway |
| ISBN | : 9788292712184 |
Norway, Society and Culture provides an introduction to contemporary Norwegian society. Is Norway a wealthy country because of its oil? Why have Edvard Grieg, Henrik Ibsen, Knut Hamsun and Edvard Munch become world famous? What are the basic Norwegian values? Why do we have two official written languages in a country with only 4.7 million people? Is Norway in a position to influence world politics? How are minorities treated? Is Christianity on the wane in Norway? What is it like to grow up in Norwgian kindergartens and schools? What are the challenges for the Norwegian welfare state? Norway, Society and Culture provides an introduction to contemporary Norwegian society for tourists, students, people in Norway on business, or anyone interested in knowing more about the northwestern corner of the European continent. In 19 short chapters, Norwegian scholars present a wide range of aspects of present-day Norway. Stimulating and accessible!
| Author | : Eva Maagerø |
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| Release | : 2021 |
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| ISBN | : 9788202566487 |
Norway: Society and Culture provides an introduction to contemporary Norwegian society for students, tourists, people in Norway on business, or anyone interested in knowing more about the northwestern corner of the European continent. In 14 short chapters, Norwegian scholars present a wide range of aspects of present-day Norway. Stimulating and accessible! •Is Norway a wealthy country because of its oil? •Why have Edvard Grieg, Henrik Ibsen, Knut Hamsun and Edvard Munch become world famous? •What are the basic Norwegian values? •Why do we have two official written languages in a country with only 5.4 million people? •Is Norway in a position to influence world politics? •How are minorities treated? •Is Christianity on the wane in Norway? •What is it like to grow up in Norwegian kindergartens and schools? •What are the challenges for the Norwegian welfare state?
| Author | : Lorelou Desjardins |
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| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2021-07-17 |
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| ISBN | : 9788230349199 |
An insightful and humorous account of the author's first year in Norway as a foreigner. From Easter to summer holidays and Christmas, it dives deeply into Norwegian culture, language and people.
| Author | : Linda March |
| Publisher | : Kuperard |
| Total Pages | : 149 |
| Release | : 2019-01-02 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1787029271 |
Culture Smart! Norway steers you through the social and professional encounters of your visit to this new culture. By deepening your understanding it will enable you to establish real friendships and business partnerships. Tips on meeting and communicating make socializing a pleasant experience, and chapters on the customs and traditions that form the bedrock of family life give a glimpse inside a Norwegian home. And as well as offering an insight into their values and attitudes, the book describes how the Norwegian commercial world operates—vital information for anyone doing business with one of the world's wealthiest nations. The need to survive in a difficult, isolated terrain and an often harsh climate forged a people who are hardworking and self-sufficient. On first meeting, the Norwegians are serious, polite, law-abiding, and hardy. They are also very private, which can make newcomers feel as if they have come up against a stone wall. Getting to know them takes time, but when you are able to read the signs that take you behind that faÇade you will meet the friendly, fun-loving, family-oriented people hiding on the other side.
| Author | : Hildor Arnold Barton |
| Publisher | : SIU Press |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780809324415 |
H. Arnold Barton investigates Norwegian political and cultural influences in Sweden during the period of the Swedish-Norwegian dynastic union from 1814 to 1905. After a proud medieval past, Norway had come under the Danish crown in the fourteenth century and had been reduced to virtually a Danish province by the sixteenth. In 1814 Denmark relinquished Norway, which became a separate kingdom, dynastically united with Sweden with its own constitutional government. Disputes during the next ninety-one years caused Norway unilaterally to dissolve the tie in 1905. Barton is the first historian to look beyond the cultural conflicts and examine the impact of the union on internal developments, particularly in Sweden. Prior to 1814, Norway, unlike Sweden, had no constitution and only the rudiments of higher culture, yet paradoxically, Norway exerted a greater direct influence on Sweden. Reflecting a society lacking a native nobility, Norway's 1814 constitution was - with the exception of that of the United States - the most democratic in the world. It became the guiding star of Swedish liberals and radicals striving to reform the antiquated system of representation in their parliament. Norway's cultural void was filled with a stellar array of artists, writers, and musicians, led by Bjoornsjerne Boornson, Henrik Ibsen, and Edvard Grieg. From the 1850s through the late 1880s, this wave of Norwegian creativity had an immense impact on literature, art, and music in Sweden. By the 1880s, however, August Strindberg led a revolt against an exaggerated ""Norvegomania"" in Sweden. Barton sees this reaction as a fundamental inspiration to Sweden's intense search for its own cultural character in the highly creative Swedish National Romanticism of the 1890s and early twentieth century.
| Author | : Jon Røyne Kyllingstad |
| Publisher | : Open Book Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 278 |
| Release | : 2014-12-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1909254541 |
The notion of a superior ‘Germanic’ or ‘Nordic’ race was a central theme in Nazi ideology. But it was also a commonly accepted idea in the early twentieth century, an actual scientific concept originating from anthropological research on the physical characteristics of Europeans. The Scandinavian Peninsula was considered to be the historical cradle and the heartland of this ‘master race’. Measuring the Master Race investigates the role played by Scandinavian scholars in inventing this so-called superior race, and discusses how the concept stamped Norwegian physical anthropology, prehistory, national identity and the eugenics movement. It also explores the decline and scientific discrediting of these ideas in the 1930s as they came to be associated with the genetic cleansing of Nazi Germany. This is the first comprehensive study of Norwegian physical anthropology. Its findings shed new light on current political and scientific debates about race across the globe.
| Author | : Arne Martin Klausen |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9781571812032 |
Discusses how the winter games related to Norwegian culture and ethos.
| Author | : Juliane Riese |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 202 |
| Release | : 2017-05-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1785335294 |
In the popular imagination, no issue has been more closely linked with the environmental group Greenpeace than whaling. Opposition to commercial whaling has inspired many of the organization’s most dramatic and high-profile “direct actions”—as well as some of its most notable failures. This book provides an inside look at one such instance: Greenpeace’s decades-long campaign against the Norwegian whaling industry. Combining historical narrative with systems-theory analysis, author Juliane Riese shows how the organization’s self-presentation as a David pitted against whale-butchering Goliaths was turned on its head. She recounts how opponents successfully discredited the campaign while Greenpeace struggled with internal disagreements and other organizational challenges, providing valuable lessons for other protest movements.
| Author | : Elizabeth Su-Dale |
| Publisher | : Graphic Arts Books |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Travel |
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Gives informative tips on the do's and don'ts of custom in Norway and provides interesting insights into the social and business attitudes of the Norwegian people.
| Author | : Isabelle Albert |
| Publisher | : IAP |
| Total Pages | : 445 |
| Release | : 2021-05-01 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 1648024351 |
This book which has been created in the framework of the EU-funded COST Action INTERFASOL brings together researchers from 22 INTERFASOL countries, who frame intergenerational family solidarity in the specific historical, cultural, social and economic context of their own country. Integrating different perspectives from social and political sciences, economics, communication, health and psychology, the book offers country-specific knowledge and new insights into family relations, family values and family policies across Europe. Praise for Families and Family Values in Society and Culture: "This comprehensive study of families in Europe reveals the strength and variation in family solidarity and values. By drawing together detailed descriptions of continuity and change, Families and Family Values in Society and Culture provides a fascinating account of the social and cultural contexts that shape European family life. The case studies of families in different European countries compare demographic and welfare regimes to consider the challenges facing generations in Europe and responses to these. The book is an invaluable resource for researchers studying family life and inter-generational solidarity." Clare Holdsworth Professor of Social Geography Keele University "This book is based on the testimony of experts, each of them proposing analyses which are specific to their own society. It provides an opportunity for the reader to take a new look at the evolution of intergenerational solidarity in 22 countries, whose wealth, welfare systems, and demographic situations, as well as recent events (wars, migratory movements, …) offer specific challenges. It adopts the perspective of the insider to shed light not only on culture and values in each country, but also on conflicts between tradition and modernity, and between subcultures in the same society. The book thus allows better understanding of changes in intergenerational and gender relations, and the variety of solutions implemented or suggested to promote more satisfactory expressions of intergenerational solidarity for the next decade. Families and Family Values in Society and Culture provides an invaluable contribution for cross-cultural and social sciences researchers interested in understanding how different forms of solidarity arise from family and social dynamics." Anne Marie Fontaine Professor of Psychology University of Porto
