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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tämä väitöskirja tarkastelee, millaisia rooleja hyvinvointivaltioiden instituutioilla on ylisukupolvisessa eriarvoisuudessa. Tutkimus osoittaa erilaisten instituutioiden vaikutuksia sosioekonomisten resurssien eriarvoiseen ...

This study examines information security as a process (information securing) in terms of what it does, especially beyond its obvious role of protector. It investigates concepts related to ‘ontology of becoming’, and examines ...

This dissertation examines intergenerational inequalities from a life course perspective. Different outcomes and paths to outcomes are analyzed using register data. The thesis consists of four research articles and a ...

This research examines the ways in which the meanings of entrepreneurship have shifted in post-industrial Finland on both sides of the millennium. The meanings of entrepreneurship are examined in the following three contexts: ...

This study examines the aftermath of mass violence in local communities. Two rampage school shootings that occurred in Finland are analyzed and compared to examine the ways in which communities experience, make sense of, ...