Ajan merkit mahdolliset maailmat Signs of the times possible worlds 5.-6.3.2015 Helsingissä Helsingin yliopisto Abstraktikooste / Abstract book Sisällys 1 Crossing boundaries when making sense of agency: room for new possibilities .................... 4 2 Ehdollinen ja moniselitteinen toimijuus ................................................................................... 7 3 Elämä tietokannoissa .............................................................................................................. 16 4 From welfare to workfare- labour and precarity in a mobile world ................................................. 19 5 Hyvinvoinnin ja eriarvoisuuden mekanismit .......................................................................... 26 6 Hyvinvoinnin määrittelyt ja käytännöt ................................................................................... 34 7 Immigrant integration trajectories, community formation and social theory ....................... 40 8 Instituutioiden mahdolliset lapsuudet .................................................................................... 43 9 Isät ja äidit arjessa ja ihanteissa .............................................................................................. 47 10 Juhlimiskulttuurien tutkimuksen työryhmä / Sociology of celebration ................................. 51 11 Jätteen yhteiskunta ................................................................................................................. 55 12 Kasvatussosiologia ja koulutuspolitiikka ................................................................................. 61 13 Kaupunkitutkimus ................................................................................................................... 69 14 Kolmannen sektorin muutos ja hybridiorganisaatiot ............................................................. 75 15 Kulttuuri ja kulutus .................................................................................................................. 84 16 Kulttuurin rahoitus ja ohjaus suomessa – trendit ja skenaariot ............................................. 93 17 Lasten ja nuorten mahdolliset maailmat ................................................................................ 95 18 Luokka laadullisessa tutkimuksessa ...................................................................................... 106 19 Läheissuhteet sosiaalisina sidoksina ..................................................................................... 111 20 Marx ja ajan merkit ............................................................................................................... 118 21 Millaista on sisäilmaongelmien yhteiskuntatieteellinen tutkimus? ..................................... 122 22 Neoinstitutionalism and world society theory ..................................................................... 125 23 Oikeussosiologia .................................................................................................................... 129 24 Political sociology and transnational ethnography............................................................... 133 25 Rikollisuuden, kontrollin ja väkivallan tutkimuksen työryhmä ............................................. 139 26 Sosiaalinen eriarvoisuus / Social inequality .......................................................................... 152 27 Sosiologiaa kädet savessa ..................................................................................................... 157 28 Sotilassosiologia .................................................................................................................... 162 29 Terveyssosiologia .................................................................................................................. 166 30 Turvallisuuden sosiologia ...................................................................................................... 172 31 Työ, perhe ja sukupuoliroolit ................................................................................................ 176 32 Valuation in practice: exploring processes of ordering and selection .................................. 180 33 Vuorovaikutuksen sosiologia ................................................................................................ 187 34 Yhteiskunnalliset ilmiöt ja sosiaaliset ongelmat ................................................................... 196 35 Yhteiskunnan rakenne ja sukupuoli ...................................................................................... 203 36 Yhteiskuntateorian työryhmä ............................................................................................... 205 1 CROSSING BOUNDARIES WHEN MAKING SENSE OF AGENCY: ROOM FOR NEW POSSIBILITIES Coordinators: Jose Cañada, University of Helsinki ([email protected]), Satu Venäläinen, Uni- versity of Helsinki ([email protected]), Miira Niska, University of Helsinki ([email protected]) & Antero Olakivi, University of Helsinki ([email protected]) Agency is not only a key concept in the social sciences but also an object of vast political interest. The concept is widely discussed, for instance, by political scientists, economists, sociologists and social psychologists. Furthermore, agency is examined from various meta-theoretical, theoretical and methodological perspectives. This workgroup discusses agency in relation to several sets of so- cietal and scientific boundaries. We are especially interested in discussing the ways in which bound- aries, such as those between human–nonhuman, individual–collective, micro–macro, national– transnational, discursive–material and personal–political, are handled when making sense of agency. In the spirit of interdisciplinarity, we welcome presentations that either cross, or discuss, boundaries between different disciplines in the social sciences. ABSTRACTS: The labour of boundary-keeping and the absence of boundaries Hanna-Mari Ikonen, University of Tampere ([email protected]) In this presentation, I examine the boundary work done by self-employed people. Entrepreneurs make use of their own abilities and personality, and they often work from home or on premises carefully modified for entrepreneurial purposes. Their place of business can thus be an emotionally meaningful place that becomes opened up to the public. Boundary work concerns situations in which boundaries between domains such as private–public or work–other life are blurred, perme- ated and crossed; consequently, boundary work also deals with the individuals’ subsequent prac- tices and emotions. My case entrepreneurs – six self-employed individuals working either with others or alone – operate in the Finnish countryside and serve dog owners in one way or another: some offer accommodation (for dog hobbyists especially), while others are coaches of different dog sports. Once a person has transformed a hobby into a livelihood and a livelihood into a lifestyle, it is clear that the boundaries between work and other life (home, family, leisure time) become less clear. In the case of self-em- ployed people, working with “a personal touch”, investing “the self” in the work, standing out from competitors, and pleasing customers all necessitate blurring boundaries, and these features form the core of their work. Often at the beginning of one’s entrepreneurial career, this conscious open- ing of public-private boundaries does not cause ambiguous feelings; instead, it results in a sense of agency. However, a more nuanced analysis reveals that such individuals conduct boundary-keeping work that protects the self when family time, free time and entirely private space become threat- ened. In this presentation, I depict the techniques through which work and other domains of life are kept separate, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the methods used to bind the domains together due to the support they offer each other. 4 Agency and obedience: re-thinking Milgram’s experiment Kari Mikko Vesala, University of Helsinki ([email protected]) Milgram’s experiments on obedience to authority is undoubtedly one of the most widely known and celebrated achievements in social psychology. Most often Milgram’s study is mentioned as a testi- mony of human susceptibility and the power of social structural and situational forces over individ- ual agency. Indeed, a key point in Milgram’s own theorizing was the absence of independent agency among obeying subjects, induced through the experimental setting. Recent work on Milgram’s set- ting and the data generated by his team, however, give good grounds for re-thinking the interpre- tations of agency in his experiments. Interestingly, these new studies have taken, for example, neo- Meadian, rhetorical, and conversation analytical approaches to the issue, thus teasing out dialogue across the contested and defended boundary between mainstream substantialist social psychology and relational and constructionist approaches. The presentation discusses agency theorizing in as- sociation with Milgram’s experiments in the light of these new contributions. Representations of agency in media texts Liisa Tuomi, University of Helsinki ([email protected]) Music making is traditionally understood as masculine whereas listening is considered passive and feminine (Leppänen, 2003). Agency in music has been largely approached as an institutional action rather than to do with individuals (Aho, 2003). My approach to female music makers is that of indi- vidual agents