Diskursanalys av läroböcker i historia för gymnasiet mellan 1925 – 2013. : Läroboksanalys med fokus på socioekonomiska grupper.

Sammanfattning: This thesis is a qualitative textual analysis of textbooks used in the teaching of history at the secondary level. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how different socio-economic groups are represented and constructed, and if this changes over time. The study holds parts of the social constructivist theory and the use of history. The method used in this thesis is the discourse analysis. The analytical instrument that this study has used is the Statistiska centralbyråns definition of socio-economic groups, which have been analysed according to Pierre Bourdieu's economic, social, cultural and symbolic capital. The results showed that there are various constructions made of the different socio-economic groups in the textbooks and that this constructions changes over time can be discerned. The discussion shows that this study’s results is consistent with previous research in the same area.