Reading these Nordic case studies through an evolutionary lens illuminates the brain mechanisms that make us factionalize, fall prey to anxiety, double down on orthodoxy, or even kill our neighbors during these master-narrative transitions. Homo sapiens need such stories, or their larger communities come unglued. The unquestionable story that had provided meaning, informed their cooperation, and dictated which future to strive for becomes transparent to them. With each of these transitions, communities face a narrative abyss. This study analyzes the ideological evolution from the polytheistic beliefs of Viking kinship societies, to Christian monotheism, to religious and later secular humanism, the master-narrative of the modern world. These works illustrate how fiction can be an evolutionary tool when environmental change requires that communities update the story they live by, their master-narrative. These criticisms-ranging from an Icelandic saga to Swedish posthumanist TV-align to trace the emergence of modernity in the Nordic region. This study examines the cultural origins of Scandinavian egalitarianism by applying an evolutionary perspective to ten influential works of fiction. But is the Nordic Model suitable for cross-cultural export?
Leading politicians on the American Left, as well as a majority of young Americans, express that they would prefer such outcomes. The Nordic region’s income equality, gender equality, low-conflict politics, and prosperous economies with generous benefits contribute to high levels of happiness and social cohesion. It is the power relations themselves that are critical in determining the register features of a conversation-as Linna, allowing his protagonist, Jussi, to change his register as he moves from one unambiguously defined power relationship to the next, has so skillfully been able to demonstrate.Īs the past decade built toward today’s crisis, Scandinavian social democracy was frequently suggested as a model that could reform capitalism. The analysis of the dialogues indicates that social class does not determine the level of elaboration of expression and the frequency of questions and commands and other linguistic features associated with power.
In this article, I use Linna's trilogy and its fictional dialogues between the main characters as data for a linguistic analysis in search of an understanding of the sociolinguistic manifestations of power relationships.
Therefore, the novel offers fruitful data for anyone interested in the linguistic manifestations of power in social relations. Väinö Linna's trilogy Täällä Pohjantähden alla (Here Under the Northern Star, 1959-1962) gives an exceptionally accurate, and historially faithful, description of both social and interpersonal roles in Finnish rural society before and after the turn of the twentieth century.
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