This book offers a brief but comprehensive overview of the history of sociology in Sweden from the prewar period to the present day. It focuses in particular on scientific boundaries, gender and the relationship between sociology and the Swedish welfare state.

The research on educational history has traditionally focused on its institutional, political and pedagogical aspects, more or less habitually analyzing schooling as a top-down, adult-controlled phenomenon. Even if change has been visible during the last decades, there still remain important topics that are rarely discussed in the field. These topics include practices related to day-to-day school life that are not part of the formal curriculum or classroom routine, but which nevertheless allow pupils to become actively involved in their own schooling. This book provides historical case studies on such extracurricular and informal schooling processes. It argues that the awareness of such topics is essential to our understanding of school settings - in both past and present.

Director Guy Cassiers sets his Ring cycle firmly in the present, in this production premiered at La Scala in May 2010. With Daniel Barenboim at the podium, René Pape, Stephan Rügamer, Johannes Martin Kränzle and Anna Larsson lead an all-star cast.

Director Guy Cassiers sets his Ring cycle firmly in the present, in this production premiered at La Scala in May 2010. With Daniel Barenboim at the podium, René Pape, Stephan Rügamer, Johannes Martin Kränzle and Anna Larsson lead an all-star cast.

The Catalan theatre company La Fura dels Baus's visually captivating interpretation of Wagner's opera, performed at Valencia's Palau de les Arts in June 2009. Zubin Mehta conducts the Orquesta de la Comunitat Valenciana, with performances by Jennifer Wilson, Juha Uusitalo, Peter Seiffert and Matti Salminen.

Daniel Barenboim conducts Wagner's third opera from 'The Ring of the Nibelung' in this live 2012 performance from Milan's La Scala theatre. An all-star cast includes Lance Ryan as Siegfried, Peter Bronder as Mime, Johannes Martin Kränzle as Alberich, Nina Stemme as Brünnhilde and Terje Stensvold as Der Wanderer.

The Catalan theatre company La Fura dels Baus's visually captivating interpretation of Wagner's opera, performed at Valencia's Palau de les Arts in June 2009. Zubin Mehta conducts the Orquesta de la Comunitat Valenciana, with performances by Jennifer Wilson, Juha Uusitalo, Peter Seiffert and Matti Salminen.