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The choice is yours but it is politically tinged. The social correlates of political party preferences in Finland
(Turun yliopisto, 2019-04-18)
The present study investigates the significance of political party preferences in Finland by drawing upon two perspectives. Firstly, the research engages in the tradition of economic sociology, as one of its critical ...
The Role of kin in educational and status attainment
(Turun yliopisto, 2020-01-31)
One of the most robust findings of sociological research is that family background is associated with children’s status and educational attainment. A child with an advantageous family background is more likely to have a ...
Now you see me, now you don't: A study of the relationship between internet anonymity and Finnish young people
(Turun yliopisto, 2015-08-21)
Negotiating home and belonging. Young Kurds in Finland
(Turun yliopisto, 2014-08-22)
This study looks at negotiation of belonging and understandings of home among a generation of young Kurdish adults who were born in Iraq, Iran, and Turkey and who reached adulthood in Finland. The young Kurds taking part ...
The Finnish Paper Workers' Union at a crossroads: Labor union representativeness in a changing environment, 1980-2008
(Turun yliopisto, 2012-09-08)
This thesis consists of four articles and an introductory section. The main research questions in all the articles refer to the changes in the representativeness of the Finnish Paper Workers' Union. Representativeness ...
Housing policy in retrenchment: Constructing housing policy in times of change
(Turun yliopisto, 2021-12-17)
This dissertation examines housing policy change from a social constructionist perspective. Two processes of housing policy change are analysed together with comparative research on European housing policies. This dissertation ...
Social Solidarity and Fear of Crime - Community and Individual Approaches in Responses to Mass Violence after School Shootings
(Turun yliopisto, 2015-04-10)
The aim of this study was to examine community and individual approaches in responses to mass violence after the school shooting incidents in Jokela (November 2007) and Kauhajoki (September 2008), Finland.
In considering ...
The layers of inequality in paid domestic labour: a global study on domestic workers and precarious work
(Turun yliopisto, 2018-08-24)
Abstract:
This dissertation examines inequalities in paid domestic labour from a global comparative
perspective. I approach the subject through three different layers that represent the
factors identified in previous ...
Pensioners' subjective economic well-being in European countries : comparisons behind the income satisfaction paradox
(Turun yliopisto, 2018-06-20)
The purpose of this doctoral thesis is to expand the relative perspective in the analysis of financial satisfaction in old age, by which is meant the formation of financial satisfaction as part of different types of ...
Institutions and the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Resources
(Turun yliopisto, 2019-08-23)
Tämä väitöskirja tarkastelee, millaisia rooleja hyvinvointivaltioiden
instituutioilla on ylisukupolvisessa eriarvoisuudessa. Tutkimus osoittaa
erilaisten instituutioiden vaikutuksia sosioekonomisten resurssien
eriarvoiseen ...