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Science, technology, and Swedish-American identity: An immigrant acculturation in Chicago, 1890-1935.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Science, technology, and Swedish-American identity: An immigrant acculturation in Chicago, 1890-1935./
Author:	Tsuchida, Eiko.
Description:	252 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-07(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-07A(E).
Subject:	American Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3615684
ISBN:	9781303817595

Science, technology, and Swedish-American identity: An immigrant acculturation in Chicago, 1890-1935.
Tsuchida, Eiko.

Science, technology, and Swedish-American identity: An immigrant acculturation in Chicago, 1890-1935. - 252 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-07(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2014.

This dissertation examines a process by which European immigrants to the United States responded to the American faith in science and technology, and participated in the making of the ideology. The dissertation explores this issue by using the specific case of Swedish-American organizations in Chicago, and their activities in the years around the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth century. In the course of the discussion, the dissertation examines how different sectors of the Swedish-American community responded to the emerging American ideology of technological utopia, so to speak, and participated in the making of discourse and symbols that supported the idea. My hypothesis is that, by participating in the construction of an American discourse regarding science and technology, each of the different sectors of the Swedish-American community was fulfilling its own agenda: for middle-class Swedish-Americans, familiar with romantic views on the origin and history of the Swedish "race," it was an act of confirmation that they were destined to become part of the American nation; for business and political leaders of the community, it was integration into the American industrial system and the securing of socially respectable positions in American society; for working-class and labor movement-oriented Swedes, it was an expectation that they would acquire a tool and an opportunity that would give them powers to become more salient agents of social change; and for the emerging class of engineers, it was a critical moment that would boost their professionalism and their status within the hierarchy of occupations. Even though the agendas and efforts of these groups did not always work in concert, when taken as a whole, they were participating in--and possibly accelerating--the process of forming American national culture into a science- and technology-oriented one.

ISBN: 9781303817595Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017604
American Studies.

Science, technology, and Swedish-American identity: An immigrant acculturation in Chicago, 1890-1935.
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