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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 ...
Parasitic Order Machine. A Sociology and Ontology of Information Securing
(Turun yliopisto, 2014-10-17)
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 ...
Let Go and Remember. How Finnish Communities Experienced and Memorialized School Shootings
(Turun yliopisto, 2014-10-03)
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, ...
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 ...
Life course approaches to intergenerational inequality
(Turun yliopisto, 2017-12-15)
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...