Textbooks, Syllabuses and Disciplinary Formation in Sweden

Bibliographic Data

ID2305403
AuthorsAnna Larsson (0000-0002-3129-1715, Umeå University, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume56
Issue2
Pages235-251
Publication date2008-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCurrent Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0011-3921 • E-ISSN: 1461-7064
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0011392107085033
OpenAlexW2031389124
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited19

In the history of an academic discipline, it takes a while before a textbook production appears. In Sweden, a body of sociological textbooks began to develop in the 1950s. Sociology had become an independent university discipline in 1947 with a chair, given to Torgny T. Segerstedt, and a department at Uppsala University, followed gradually by the universities in Lund, Stockholm, Gothenburg and, somewhat later, Umeå. The participating authors and the areas covered in the first textbook can be read as an image of the state of Swedish sociology by that time. But textbooks can also serve a purpose in the disciplinary formation process itself. This article discusses the role and use of textbooks, course literature and syllabuses in the defining and boundary-work of the new Swedish university discipline of sociology

Discipline · Pedagogy · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Syllabus · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Innovative Teaching Methodologies in Social Sciences · Political Science Research and Education

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