Search results for "yhteiskuntaluokat"

Yhteiskunnan moottori vai kivireki? : suuret ikäluokat ja 1960-lukulaisuus

2004

The minor as major: Outsiderness and social class in Saara Turunen’s prose

2021

Saara Turunen’s Sivuhenkilö is a work of autofiction, which tells the story of a year in its unnamed protagonist’s life. Despite her success as an author, the protagonist feels like a minor character in her own life: an outsider both because of her gender and her profession as a writer. In this article, I offer a critical reading of Turunen’s prose by asking what political implications are attached to her handling of outsiderness. I approach outsiderness not merely as a theme, but also as a genre-specific feature peculiar to the tradition of feminist rewriting. Based on my reading of Sivuhenkilö, I argue that regardless of its feminist potential, framing oneself as an outsider can function …

Parenting culture(s): Ideal-parent beliefs across 37 countries

2022

What is it to be “an ideal parent”? Does the answer differ across countries and social classes? To answer these questions in a way that minimizes bias and ethnocentrism, we used open-ended questions to explore ideal-parent beliefs among 8,357 mothers and 3,517 fathers from 37 countries. Leximancer Semantic Network Analysis was utilized to first determine parenting culture zones (i.e., countries with shared ideal-parent beliefs) and then extract the predominant themes and concepts in each culture zone. The results yielded specific types of ideal-parent beliefs in five parenting culture zones: being “responsible and children/family-focused” for Asian parents, being “responsible and proper de…

Class in selected novels of D.H. Lawrence

2001

Varastamisen ja haltuunoton rajoilla : siivoojat varkaina Lucia Berlinin "Siivoojan käsikirjassa" ja Elizabeth Jolleyn "Viimeisessä sadosssa"

2020

Rethinking Samir Amin’s legacy and the case for a political organization of the global justice movement

2019

Juego argues that the new Internationale’s “primary organizational function should be the global coordination of actions of progressive grassroots movements from country to country.” He calls for a ‘learning organization,’ where the new Internationale supports “a continuous dialogue between bottom-up and top-down approaches to decision-making.” He sees it as “[a]kin to a global coordinating council” meaning that it works to integrate and synthesize the “varying initiatives, campaigns, and mass actions at all geographical levels of membership” while remaining mindful of the “dialectics between reform and revolution.” The new Internationale must, moreover, be “grounded on a pragmatic understa…

How bright are the Nordic Lights? : job quality trends in Nordic countries in a comparative perspective

2017

Nordic countries stand out from the rest of the Europe in terms of job quality. Comparative research literature sought to explain the distinctiveness of Nordic countries with diverse sets of institutional frameworks. However, global competition, technological revolution and deregulation are common developments throughout the industrial world – processes which are seen to erode the meaning of institutions and nation states as protective mechanisms. This dissertation discusses the question on the existence and persistence of the Nordic working life model through the concept of job quality, which are investigated using surveys on working conditions. The study draws from both universal and inst…

The global politics of celebrity humanitarianism

2014

Ylen kavala ja taitava kamppauksessaan maailmaa ja ihmisiä vastaan : kansa, käskyvalta ja pikaroainekset Pentti Haanpään tuotannossa

2012

Representations of social class and urban poverty in Tom Wolfe's The bonfire of the vanities

2016

Yhdysvaltalaista yhteiskuntaa on sen 1900-luvulla kehittyneestä taloudellisesta valta-asemasta huolimatta jo pitkään vaivannut niin sanottu köyhyyden paradoksi: huono-osaisuuden ja epätasa-arvon ilmeneminen yhdessä maailman rikkaimmista valtioista. Tätä paradoksia on käsitelty toisinaan myös amerikkalaisessa kirjallisuudessa, josta esimerkkinä on Tom Wolfe satiirinen romaani The Bonfire of the Vanities (Turhuuksien rovio, 1987). Tämä tutkielma tarkastelee teoksen kuvausta 1980-luvun New Yorkin kaltaiseen suurkaupunkiin keskittyneestä köyhyydestä, etenkin vähemmistöjen keskuudessa. Käyttäen pohjana 1960-luvulta alkanutta keskustelua alempiin sosiaaliluokkiin vaikuttavista ongelmista niin ulk…