The annexation of the Grand Duchy of Finland by the Russian Empire after the victorious war with Sweden in 1808–1809 sharply changed the military-political situation in the Baltic. Into the hands of the Russians fell a vast territory with such
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Mika Vuori and Mika Gissler
The 1970s could be said to be the ‘golden age’ for social and well-being indicators. After a period of slow progress, new indicators were devised in Europe during the mid-1990s, however, improvements are still needed in the knowledge and scientific theories behind these indicators. New indicators need to be developed and comparable multinational statistics need to be collected. The purpose of this article is to present key findings on social quality in Finland. The situation will be described with data at national level with some international comparisons, derived from different resources of statistics and research. Furthermore, the underlying trends that affect the social quality of Finnish people will be described.
In European Journal of Social Quality
- Published (Print):
- 01 Nov 2005
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 67–85 (19 total)
Jussi Kurunmäki
This article examines the ways in which the Finnish liberals described themselves as national liberals and how they were labeled by their opponents as supporters of foreign doctrines and cosmopolitanism in the late nineteenth century. It will be shown that the rhetoric of liberalism was entangled in an inflamed issue between the advocates of Finnish and Swedish languages in Finland. Ultimately, this contest dealt with the concept of nation. Furthermore, the article discusses the uses of other countries' political life as exemplary cases, thus bringing a transnational perspective into the analysis. The contested character of the concept of liberalism and its compound form, national liberalism (nationell liberalism, kansallinen liberalismi), will be highlighted by paying attention to the semantic differences between Swedish-language and Finnish-language uses of the concept. The article closes with an interpretation of the weak role that the concept of liberalism has played in nineteenth-century Finnish political culture.
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2013
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 83–95 (13 total)
Veronika Honkasalo
This article examines multiculturalism and gender equality in the light of ethnicity, gender, and agency so as to illustrate how gender equality is used as a marker of Finnishness in various youth work contexts. The data presented consists of interviews with youth workers (n=42) and ethnographic fieldwork carried out from 2003 to 2005. The results illustrate that questions related to multiculturalism have enhanced the visibility of gender equality in youth work. The identification of gender-based inequality is connected, in particular, to girls from migrant backgrounds whose education and well-being are of social concern. Youth work itself is often seen as gender-neutral and equality-based. However, this illusion of gender equality reflects more the ideals of equality which are not being concretized in the practices of youth work. Equality in this context is defined as a purely quantitative concept: the solution to any possible inequalities is, therefore, that everyone should be treated in the same way.
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Dec 2013
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 47–68 (22 total)
The Integration Spectacle
Migration, politics, and multiculturalism in a Finnish suburb
Ville Laakkonen
Inside an auditorium located in an award-winning shopping center in Turku, Finland, we are attending an education event. The room is packed with migrants, largely from the Middle East and Africa, along with some education and multiculturalism
Socialisms in the Tsarist Borderlands
Poland and Finland in a Contrastive Comparison, 1830—1907
Wiktor Marzec and Risto Turunen
Empire. In the case of Polish socialism and Finnish socialism , their long-term destinies were inevitably tied to both the resilience and the fall of the Empire. 2 However, one can approach the political history of the imperial borderlands of Poland
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Jun 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 22–50 (29 total)
“Comrades in Battle”
Women Workers and the 1906 Finnish Suffrage Victory
Eric Blanc
In 1906, Finland became the world’s first nation to grant full female suffrage. 1 A pivotal role in winning this watershed achievement was played by the League of Working Women in alliance with the Social Democratic Party (SDP). In this article I
Pekka Kosonen and Jukka Vänskä
Our standpoint is that temporary employment is also related to employment security, since an extensive use of temporary work (for a specified, often short, period) tends to increase insecurity of the workers. Another problem is connected to lay-offs. However, the most crucial question deals with the termination of employment contracts, in particular undetermined duration contracts. If this is made very easy for the employers, employment security is reduced. Finally, the conditions and levels of compensation in all of these cases are of importance in terms of income and employment security.
In European Journal of Social Quality
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jan 2003
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 131–155 (25 total)
Powerlessness and Unfairness
A Letter to Jan Zielonka
Henri Vogt
seek to make clear for ourselves what kinds of elements constitute our ideal type of good society – and whether this is in the end compatible, as we both hope, with liberal principles writ large. The Finnish Experience My second main objection
In Democratic Theory
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2019
- Article Type:
- Critical Commentary
- Pages:
- 111–121 (11 total)
History between Red Brackets
The Cold War in History Museums around the Baltic Sea
Johan Hegardt
between Denmark and Sweden. The Baltic Sea region today includes nine nations: Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Germany, as well as the small enclave of Kaliningrad between Lithuania and Poland, which belongs to