... Collective action Social media Finland In addition to traditional organisations and political movements, various means of digitalised communication, such as social media platforms, now offer party members new means to engage. Digital media have been seen to be in a prominent position in recent...

..., and when critically engaged, it draws attention to the proliferation of segmentation in modern labour markets including Finland’s. Labour market segmentation draws on and perpetuates inequality making analysis of its occurrences in varied contexts imperative. In a segmented labour market, jobs have...

... for a pension reform in two countries with distinct institutional and ideational setup: Finland and France. Design/methodology/approach The authors utilise the framework of different modes of justification presented by Boltanski and Thévenot to reveal the reasoning used in pension reform discussions in both...

... of alternative economies in Finland: ridesharing and timebanking. Design/methodology/approach Through qualitative data, the paper looks into moments of negotiation where economic moralities of self-organised alternative economies are explicitly debated. The main research data consists of social media...

... in Finland. The data are based on a population level survey. First, the authors compared party supporters’ trust in universities and YLE media. Second, the authors analyzed how political trust contributes to party supporters’ trust in knowledge-based institutions by estimating predicted probabilities...

...Antti O. Tanskanen; Johanna Kallio; Mirkka Danielsbacka The authors used nationally representative data collected in Finland in 2012. Respondents represent an older generation (born between 1945 and 1950, n=1,959) and their adult children (born between 1962 and 1993, n=1,652...

... with beneficiaries of gambling in Finland and France. In Finland, the majority of gambling revenue is redistributed to CSOs, who also exercise a strong influence and are heavily involved in the system. In France, most gambling proceeds are directed to the central state, making other beneficiaries less powerful...

...Tiina Sihto Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the changes in local childcare policy that have taken place between the years 2008 and 2016 in the city of Jyväskylä, Finland, and to study how the local gender contract for women is being reshaped via these transformations in local...

... be made even more challenging when shifts change rapidly, thus reducing any sense of routine in childcare. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Finland United Kingdom The Netherlands Childcare Lone mothers Non-standard work hours Working outside of standard “9 to 5” weekly...

...Mikael Nygård; Fredrik Snellman Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the politicisation of age discrimination in relation to the enactment of anti-discrimination legislation in Finland and Sweden in the early-2000s. By showing how politicians constructed the meaning of age...

... predominant in Finland, informal overtime work can increase pressures on families. The authors encourage the policy- and organisation-level recognition of informal overtime risks. As a rule, research on the work-family interface implicitly conceptualises work occurring in locations outside the home. Work...

... to be conceptualised as an individual‐level attribute. Finally, the concluding chapter discusses the relevance and implications of the findings. Dentists Networks Profession Social capital Social cohesion Sociology of professions Finland The birth of professional associations ties...

...Marina Hennig; Marina Hennig; Stefan Stuth; Mareike Ebach; Anna Erika Hägglund Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze how employed women perceive the reconciliation of work and family life in Denmark, Germany, France, Finland, Great Britain, Sweden and Switzerland. The paper seeks...

... Finland The ideas underpinning the different variants of the welfare state are linked to various forms of Christianity: the Central European model is based on Catholic, the social‐democratic version on Lutheran and the Anglo‐American model on laissez‐faire religiosity (Kersbergen and Manow, 2009...

... strategic partnership and joint action. In Finland the one‐stop model of LAFOS represents a culmination of integrated activation policy. Implementation and results of LAFOS highlight the governance demands of joined‐up service delivery. Health care proposes yet another viewpoint to the development...

... (n=4,359), 2001 (n=5,495) and 2006 (n=4,007) provided by Statistics Finland. The main analysis of personal care consumption was conducted by examining the purchasing costs of personal care products and appliances, and the amount of spending on personal care services. The differences...

... Finland Norway Sweden The concept of governance is intrinsically connected to the study of change. The relations between state and society are changing, and as the boundaries between the two become more blurred, governing societal affairs is getting more complex. Governance captures the emerging...

...Viola Burau; Signy Irene Vabo; Teppo Kröger Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the changes that have taken place in the central regulation of social care in Finland since the 1970s. The changes in vertical central‐local relations are discussed in the context of economic and welfare...

... strengthens or weakens local universalism. Design/methodology/approach The analysis is based on case studies in six municipalities in Finland, Norway and Sweden. Findings The paper shows that three kinds of organisational characteristics are of relevance for local universalism: the explicitness...

... identifiable structural patterns in their behaviour (e.g. Arnett, 2001 ; Mitchell, 2006). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Adolescents Social values Denmark Sweden Norway Finland In contemporary social life, gender‐specific associations are deeply embedded in the structures...