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The Human Right to Social Security and Its Impact on Socio-Political Action in Germany and Finland
2017
Social human rights have rarely been given attention in social work research or comparative studies on welfare states. The paper aims at filling the gap by analysing the conception of human beings inherent in human rights and in unemployment policy documents in Germany and Finland. Its focus lies on the right to social security, a central norm of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The main question is what impact does the right to social security have on socio-political action in Germany and Finland. The results of the analysis, which was based on the objective hermeneutics, revealed a structural similarity between the conceptions of human beings in both cou…
Creating ‘Communities of Practice’ to Enhance Ecosocial Work : A Comparison between Finland and Australia
2022
Abstract This article reports on findings from a small qualitative study in two industrialised countries—Finland and Australia, which aimed to engage social work practitioners in ‘communities of practice’ to collaboratively explore ecosocial work practice. Using a Participatory Action Research approach, a series of workshops were established to plan, implement and evaluate ecosocial work interventions. Data were gathered using qualitative pre- and post-surveys to examine changes to practice, including similarities and differences between Finnish and Australian practitioners. Overall, results indicated that practitioner engagement in the workshops increased their capacity to implement ecosoc…
A social work perspective to the neoliberal mining boom in Finland and the possibility of an ecosocial response
2018
Striving to strengthen the ecosocial framework in social work in Finland
2021
AbstractThere is no economic or social sustainability without ecological sustainability, yet the latter can hardly be achieved without the other forms of sustainability. While contemporary consumer societies are still today fundamentally unsustainable, advancing the overall sustainability transition as well as mitigating and preventing the ecological crisis should be high on the social work and community development agendas. On one hand, this is because the ecological crisis both causes and increases social inequality and vulnerability. On the other hand, aspiring sustainability requires profound social and cultural changes, bringing about which belongs to social work and community work’s a…
The use of Electronic Information Systems in social work : A scoping review of the empirical articles published between 2000 and 2019
2022
Sähköisiä tietojärjestelmiä käytetään laajasti sosiaalityössä, mutta empiirisiä tutkimustuloksia niiden käytöstä ei ole vielä analysoitu ja levitetty. Tässä kartoittavassa kirjallisuuskatsauksessa tarkasteltiin vuosien 2000–2019 julkaistun 36 tutkimusartikkelin tuloksia selvittäen, mitkä teemat korostuivat tutkimuksissa sekä millaisia tutkimusaukkoja oli tunnistettavissa. Analyysin perusteella tunnistettiin neljä pääteemaa: (1) tietojärjestelmien käytön vaikutukset sosiaalityöhön; (2) tekijät, joilla on vaikutusta tietojärjestelmien käytössä; (3) sosiaalityöntekijöiden toimintatavat tietojärjestelmien käytössä ja (4) tietojärjestelmien kehittäminen sosiaalityöntekijöiden kanssa. Tulosten mu…
Sosiaalityön tutkimuksen mielekkyydestä ja missiosta
2017
Institutional ethnography as a feminist approach for social work research
2019
The aim of this chapter is to introduce Institutional Ethnography (IE) as a valuable feminist approach for social work research. It first describes how IE found its way through the women’s studies to the academic arenas in Finland, and how it has influenced author’s own research. The second part focusses on social work research, where IE has been used to investigate how the welfare service system transforms the experiences and everyday world of its service users into generalised categorisations and definitions. However, in its focus on institutions and social relations of ruling instead of individuals, IE allows seeing the professionals embedded in the same institutional relations and pract…
Kyykystä kyvykkääksi nuorisososiaalityöllä
2018
TIIVISTELMÄ KYYKYSTÄ KYVYKKÄÄKSI NUORISOSOSIAALITYÖLLÄ Tiina Lehtonen Pro gradu –tutkielma Sosiaalityö Jyväskylän yliopisto/Kokkolan yliopistokeskus Chydenius Ohjaaja: VTL Katri Viitasalo kevät 2018 101 sivua Tämän pro gradu –tutkielman tarkoituksena on tutkia nuorten asumisen- ja talouden problematiikkaa Nuorisobarometreissä 2013 – 2016. Tutkielman teoreettisen viitekehyksen muodostavat Financial Social Work, taloudellinen lähestymistapa sosiaalityössä sekä analyysia ohjaavana teoriana olevat Martha C. Nussbaumin (2011, 2013, 2016) toimintamahdollisuus- ja yksilön kyvykkyyden kehittämisteoriat (Capabilities Approach ja The Human Development Approach). Tutkielman taustoituksessa avataan kuv…