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Aineistot 11-20 / 20
Paradoxes of therapeutic self-tracking assemblages in everyday life
(Turun yliopisto, 2020-11-06)
One of the most significant consumer trends of the 21st century has been proactive digital self-tracking. Proactive self-tracking refers to the everyday utilisation of a wide variety of hardware devices and mobile applications ...
Processes of long-term work disability and socioeconomic disparities : unwinding the roles of family background, sickness absence, and psychosocial work environment
(Turun yliopisto, 2020-10-08)
Due to population ageing and the increasing dependency ratio, maintaining a sufficient workforce has become an important national policy target in Finland. As the population shrinks, prolonging working careers becomes one ...
Mechanisms in health and socioeconomic wellbeing – The role of parental resources, early-life experiences, and their accumulation
(Turun yliopisto, 2021-12-10)
Wellbeing is one of the most studied topics in social sciences. Previous empirical findings suggest that particularly severe, repeated, or multiple negative exposures threaten wellbeing. Social scientific research on ...
Luottamuksen lähteet. Vertaileva tutkimus yleistynyttä luottamusta synnyttävistä mekanismeista
(Annales Universitatis Turkuensis C 381Turun yliopisto, 2014-04-25)
Tutkimuksen aiheena on yleistynyt luottamus. Väitöskirjassa tutkitaan mistä tuntemattomien kansalaisten toisiinsa kohdistama luottamus kumpuaa ja haetaan vastauksia tähän kysymykseen sekä maakohtaisen että vertailevan ...
Like parent, like child? : The role of resources and life events from an intergenerational perspective
(Turun yliopisto, 2021-02-19)
Intergenerational transmission occurs in most aspects of life, influencing our life events and future achievements. This dissertation examines how different resources and life events are related to the individual’s outcomes ...
Ideas, institutions, and the politics of social policy reforms
(Turun yliopisto, 2021-11-12)
Welfare state research has demonstrated that ideas and institutions can influence the paths and politics of welfare state expansion and retrenchment. This dissertation investigates the role of political decision-making in ...
Becoming workers: How young women negotiate their imagined futures in the Finnish work society
(Turun yliopisto, 2023-01-13)
This study examines how young women at the threshold between post-compulsory education and the labour market become workers and imagine their futures in the Finnish work society. More specifically, the study investigates ...
Long-term changes in the consumption of healthy and unhealthy foods: Exploring the roles of age, birth cohort, socioeconomic status, and gender
(Turun yliopisto, 2023-05-26)
Food habits significantly influence the risks of several non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and memory disorders. NCDs cause heavy burdens on society in the form of human ...
Welfare technologies in Finland: An ethico-politics of hype, hope and experimentation
(Turun yliopisto, 2023-12-16)
In the past decade, the Finnish government has been eager to enable and support the development, implementation and growing business of automation, robotics and artificial intelligence—that is, welfare technologies in ...
Connecting and Disconnecting : Information and Communication Technology in Family Relationships
(Turun yliopisto, 2023-10)
Information and communication technology (ICT), most notably smartphones and social media, have transformed human social interaction. In this thesis, I examine how ICT has been appropriated in families and what effects it ...