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Study Units

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Bachelor’s Degree

Bachelor’s Degree

Credits: 180
  • Studies in major subject: basic studies 25 credits, intermediate studies 65 credits
  • Minor subject studies: 50 or 60 credits
  • General studies: as required for the degree
  • Elective studies: required to raise the total number of credits to 180

Subunits

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General Studies

General studies

Credits: 24
All-Faculty and Programme Related General Studies 12 credits
  • Orientation Course for International Students 2
  • Language courses 10

Programme Related General Studies 17 credits

  • Introduction to Statistics (or Basic Statistics for Sociologists) 10
  • Basic Course in Computing 5
  • Supplementary Course in Computing (SPSS) 2
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Basic Studies in Sociology

Basic Studies in Sociology

Code: 75010 Credits: 25

Content

THESE APPLY FOR BOTH LINES OF SPECIALISATION Study units 113., 114. and 105. are for finnish students.
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110. Introduction to Sociology

110. Introduction to Sociology

Code: 75110 Credits: 5

Objectives

To get a general overview of sociology as a subject and to get acquainted with the sociological way of thinking and some of the most important concepts in sociology.

Mode of assessment

Faculty examination (to be substituted by a lecture course if organised).

Literature:

  • Kivisto P: Key Ideas in Sociology, 2nd edition
  • Bauman Z: Thinking Sociologically
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111. Introduction to Demography

111. Introduction to Demography

Code: 75111 Credits: 5

Objectives

The aim is to provide the student with a basic knowledge of the central concepts and research problems in demography.

Mode of assessment

  1. Introduction to Demography lecture course with appropriate readings, course examination and exercises (if available) or
  2. Independent reading of required texts for Faculty examination.

Literature:

As independent reading for the Faculty examination:
  • Weinstein J & Pillai V K: Demography. The Science of Population.
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112. Introduction to Social Anthropology

112. Introduction to Social Anthropology

Code: 758101 Credits: 5

Mode of assessment

  1. Introduction to Social Anthropology -lecture course with appropriate reading and course examination (if available) or
  2. Independent reading of required texts for the Faculty examination

Literature:

1. With the lecture course:
  • Eriksen T: Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology

2. As independent reading for the Faculty examination, if the course is not available:

  • Keesing R & Strathern A: Cultural Anthropology; A Contemporary Perspective.
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113. Introduction to Finnish Sosiology

113. Introduction to Finnish Sosiology

Code: 75113 Credits: 3

Content

NOTE:

THESE APPLY FOR BOTH LINES OF SPECIALISATION Study units 113., 114. and 105. are for finnish students.

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114. Study Groups on Giddens´s Sociology

114. Study Groups on Giddens´s Sociology

Code: 75114 Credits: 3

Content

NOTE:

THESE APPLY FOR BOTH LINES OF SPECIALISATION Study units 113., 114. and 105. are for finnish students.

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105. Sociological Perspectives and Social Research

105. Sociological Perspectives and Social Research

Code: 75105 Credits: 4

Content

NOTE:

Study units 113. and 114. 105. are for finnish students.

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103. Research Areas and Methods of Sociology

103. Research Areas and Methods of Sociology

Code: 75103 Credits: 6

Objectives

The aim is to provide the student with a basic knowledge of sociological concepts, methods and research problems.

Mode of assessment

Faculty examination. It is also possible to substitute a part of the unit by a relevant course (if available). (Discuss the possibilities with the examiner.)

Literature:

  • Giddens A: Sociology
  • Bryman A: Quality and Quantity in Social Research
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104. Introduction to Finnish Society

104. Introduction to Finnish Society

Code: 75104 Credits: 4

Objectives

The aim is for the student to get acquainted with the structure and institutions of Finnish society.

Mode of assessment

An essay based on literature mentioned below.

Literature:

  • Pesonen P & Riihinen O : Dynamic Finland. The Practical System and the Welfare State
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Intermediate Studies in General Sociology

Intermediate Studies in General Sociology

Code: 75053 Credits: 35 - 63
NOTE: THESE APPLY FOR BOTH LINES OF SPECIALISATION
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129. History and Classics of Sociology

129. History and Classics of Sociology

Code: 75129 Credits: 4

Objectives

The aim is to acquaint the student with the theoretical heritage of sociology.

Prerequisites

Basic Studies.

Mode of assessment

Faculty examination

Literature:

  • Hughes J A - Martin P J - Sharrock W: Understanding Classical Sociology
  • Callinicos A: Social Theory. A Historical Introduction
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130. Study of Contemporary Society

130. Study of Contemporary Society

Code: 75130 Credits: 5

Objectives

To familiarize the student with the central areas and problems of current sociological research in Finland.

Mode of assessment

Faculty examination. It is possible to substitute parts of the unit by lecture courses if arranged and/or with literature review(s) on some of the books. Note: lecture courses must be finished and the literature reviews marked before going to the Faculty examination.

Literature:

Choose three items out of the following four options:
  • Esping-Andersen G : Social Foundations of Post-industrial Economies.
  • Hochschild A R : The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work.
  • Joas H : War and Modernity
  • Ledeneva A : Russia's Economy of Favours. Blat, Networking and Informal Exchange.

152. Proseminar

Code: 75152 Credits: 5

Prerequisites

Study units 129 and 130. Also unit 134 is recommended.

Mode of assessment

Please contact the programme coordinator

Target group/Course level

Note: only for students majoring in Sociology.

Courses

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140. Social consequences of population development
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140. Social consequences of population development

140. The Population of Europe

Code: 75140 Credits: 4

Objectives

The aim is to acquaint students to the causes and social consequences of European population development.

Mode of assessment

Faculty examination.

Literature:

  • The New Generations of Europeans. Demography and Families in the Enlarged European Union. Lutz W, Richter R and C Wilson (eds.). IIASA and Earthscan 2006.
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134. Orientations in Sociologiacal Theory

134. Orientations in Sociologiacal Theory

Code: 75134 Credits: 7

Objectives

The aim is to acquaint students systematically with different theoretical orientations in sociology.

Prerequisites

Basic studies and study unit 129.

Mode of assessment

Faculty examination.

Literature:

1. Harrington A (ed.): Modern Social Theory
2. Sennett R: The Culture of New Capitalism

3. Beck U & Beck-Gersheim E: Individualization

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135. Quantitative Methods in Social Research

135. Quantitative Methods in Social Research

Code: 75135 Credits: 9

Objectives

The aim is to acquire basic knowledge on quantitative methods in sociology so that the student can read and critically evaluate quantitative studies and to make simple statistical analysis. The course is about the different uses of quantitative research, various kinds of data and ways of analysing them and about making conclusions on the basis of quantitative analysis. The main part of the course is about interview- and survey- research methods and analysis. Several exercises are included in the course, and the students also learn to use a computer program for statistical analysis and the SPSS-program.

Mode of assessment

Lecture course (if available) and exercises in the computer lab and at home. The course consists of an intermediate examination and a course examination based on the course contents and the following literature:

Target group/Course level

Note: Only for students majoring in sociology.

Literature:

Babbie E: The Practice of Social Research, 10th or 11th Edition (Chapters 1-9 and 14-17)

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136. Qualitative Methods in Social Research

136. Qualitative Methods in Social Research

Code: 75136 Credits: 9

Objectives

To get acquainted with the most central qualitative methods in sociology and to practise their use.

Mode of assessment

A lecture course (if available) and a course examination, exercises (including generating qualitative data, text processing and textual analysis) and a report.

Target group/Course level

Note: only for students majoring in Sociology.

Literature:

Discuss the literature and the options to take exercises with the examiner.

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Fields of Specialisation in Sociology I

Fields of Specialisation in Sociology I

Credits: 8 + 8

Objectives

The aim is for the student to become acquainted with two fields of specialisation in Sociology.

Prerequisites

Study units 129, 130 and 134. It is also recommended that method courses are completed. Choose four options from two of the special fields (Note: each number is equivalent to one option; i.e. one option may include more than one text).

Mode of assessment

Two Faculty examinations (one field of specialisation at a time). The written examinations, or parts of them, can be substituted by attending lecture series, by writing literature reviews or by participating in a theme seminar arranged by the department. NOTE: Substitutions have to be agreed upon in advance with the examiner(s) and the courses and essays have to be marked before going to the Faculty examination.

Literature:

Choose four options from two of the special fields (Note: each number is equivalent to one option; i.e. one option may include more than one text).

420. Health Sociology

Code: 75420 Credits: 8

Literature:

Choose four options (Note: each number is equivalent to one option; i.e. one option may include more than one text):

1.
  • Nettleton S.: The Sociology of Health and Illness, 2nd ed.
2.
  • Bendelow G, Carpenter M, Vautier C, Williams S (eds.): Gender, Health and Healing: The Public/Private Divide.
3.
  • Heritage J, Maynard D (eds.): Communication in Medical Care. Interaction between Primary Care Physicians and Patients.
4.
  • Bartley M. Health Inequality: An Introduction to Theories, Concepts and Methods.
5.
  • Cockerham WC: Social Causes of Health and Disease.
6.
  • Rose N.: The Politics of Life Itself - Biomedicine, Power and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century.

426. Family Sociology

Code: 75426 Credits: 8

Literature:

Choose four options (Note: each number is equivalent to one option; i.e. one option may include more than one text):

1.
  • Smart, Carol (2007): Personal Life.
2.
  • Lamanna M: Emile Durkheim on the Family
3.
  • Beck U & Beck-Gernsheim E: The Normal Chaos of Love
4.
  • Widmer Eric & Jallinoja R (eds.): Beyond the Nuclear Family. Families from a Configurational Perspective
5.
  • Gullestad M & Segalen M (eds.): Family and Kinship in Europe.
6.
  • Coontz Stephanie: Marriage, a History. How Love Conquered Marriage.
7.
  • Smart C & Neale B: Family Fragments?

427. Law and Society

Code: 75427 Credits: 8

Literature:

Choose four options (Note: each number is equivalent to one option; i.e. one option may include more than one text):

1. 1. Christie N.: Crime Control as Industry
2. Garland D: The Culture of Control
3. Akers R L: Criminological Theories
4. Roach Anleu, S.L.: Law and Social Change
5. Cotterrell R: Sociology of Law
6. Lyon D.: Surveillance Society
7. Banakar, R.: The Doorkeepers of the Law

8. Valverde M: Diseases of the Will. Alcohol and the Dilemmas of Freedom (p. 1-119) and Sulkunen P et al. (eds.): Broken Spirits: Power and Ideas in Nordic Alcohol Control (p. 1-112)

430. The Sociology of Gender

Code: 75430 Credits: 8

Literature:

Choose four options (Note: each number is equivalent to one option; i.e. one option may include more than one text):

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1.
  • Nayak A & Kehily M. J.: Youth and Culture. Young Masculinities and Feminities.
2.
  • Connell R.W. : The Men and The Boys
3.
  • Delamont S : Feminist Sociology
4.
  • Skeggs B.: Formations of Class and Gender. Becoming Respectable.
5.
  • Marshall B & Witz A (toim.): Engendering the Social
6.
  • Ramazanoglu C & Holland J : Feminist Methodology: Challenges and Choices

Courses

4301. Sociology of childhood and youth

Code: 754301 Credits: 8

Literature:

Choose four options (Note: each number is equivalent to one option; i.e. one option may include more than one text):

1.
  • de Block, Liesbeth ja Buckingham, David: Global Children, Global Media. Migration, Media and Childhood.
2.
  • James, Allison ja James, Adrian L.: Constructing Childhood. Theory, Policy and Social Practice.
3.
  • Lee, Nick: Childhood and Society. Growing up in age of uncertainty.
4.
  • France, Alan: Understanding Youth in Late Modernity.
5.
  • Henderson, Sheila, Holland, Janet, McGrellis,Sheena, Sharpe, Sue ja Thomson, Rachel: Inventing Adulthoods. A Biographical Approach to Youth Transitions.

432. Social Interaction

Code: 75432 Credits: 8

Literature:

Choose four options (Note: each number is equivalent to one option; i.e. one option may include more than one text):

1.
  • Heritage J: Harold Garfinkel ja etnometodologia
2.
  • Manning P: Erving Goffman and modern sociology
3.
  • Edwards D: Discourse and Cognition
4.
  • Kendon A: Conducting interaction. Patterns of behavior in focused encounters
5.
  • Tainio L (toim): Keskustelunanalyysin perusteet
6.
  • Arminen I: Institutional Interaction

7.

  • Collins R: Interaction ritual chains
8.
  • Peräkylä, A, Antaki, C, Vehviläinen, S, Leudar, I: Conversation analysis and psychotherapy
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433. Research on Social Structure, Social Conflicts and Inequality

433. Research on Social Structure, Social Conflicts and Inequality

Code: 75433 Credits: 7

Literature:

Choose four options (Note: each number is equivalent to one option; i.e. one option may include more than one text):

1.
  • Castells M: The Rise of the Network Society
2.
  • Giugni, M.: Social Protest and Policy Change
3.
  • Della Porta, D. & Diani, M: Social Movements. An Introduction
4.
  • Salmenniemi, S.: Growing Flower in the Front.
5.
  • Yearley S: Sociology, Environmentalism, Globalization
6.
  • Ferrera, M.: The Boundaries of Welfare
7.
  • Muffels, R. et al, (eds.): Social Exclusion in European Welfare States

International migration and integration

Code: 754331 Credits: 8

Literature:

Please choose four options. At least one of the options 1 and 2 is required.

1.

  • Castles S and Miller M J: The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World.
2
  • Portes A and DeWind J (eds.): Rethinking Migration: New Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives.
3.
  • Ahmad A: Getting a Job in Finland. The Social Networks of Immigrants from the Indian Subcontinent in the Helsinki Metropolitan Labour Market.
4.
  • Bryceson D and Vuorela U (eds.): The Transnational Family: New European Frontiers and Global Networks.
5.
  • Wahlbeck Ö: Kurdish Diasporas: A Comparative Study of Kurdish Refugee Communities.

434. Research on Work and Organizations

Code: 75434 Credits: 8

Literature:

Choose four options (Note: each number is equivalent to one option; i.e. one option may include more than one text):

1.
  • Pettinger L, Parry J, Taylor R and Glucksmann M (eds.): A New Sociology of Work?
2.
  • Scott W R, and Davis D F: Organizations and Organizing: Rational, Natural and Open Systems Perspectives: International Edition.
3.
  • Heiskanen T ja Hearn J: Information Society and the Workplace: Spaces, Boundaries and Agency.
4.
  • Webb J:Organisations, Identities And The Self.
5.
  • Sennett R : The Corrosion of Character
6.
  • Bradley H and Healy G: Ethnicity and Gender at Work. Inequalities, Careers and Employment Relations.
7.
  • Wrede S, Henriksson L, Høst H and Dybbroe B (eds.): Care Work in Crisis. Reclaiming the Nordic Ethos of Care.
8.
  • Julkunen R and Nätti J : The Modernization of Working Times: Flexibility and Work Sharing in Finland

Courses

435. Urban Sociology

Code: 75435 Credits: 8

Literature:

Choose four options (Note: each number is equivalent to one option; i.e. one option may include more than one text):

At least one of the options 1 and 2 is an obligatory part of the examination.

1.
  • Savage M, Warde A & Ward K : Urban Sociology, Capitalism and Modernity (2nd ed.)
2.
  • Gottdiener M and Hutchinson R: The New Urban Sociology (3rd ed.)
3. One of the following:
  • Musterd S & Ostendorf W. : Urban Segregation and the Welfare State: Inequality and Exclusion in Western Cities
  • Mingione E (ed.): Urban Poverty and the Underclass. A Reader (p. 1-152 and 275 – 383)
4. One of the following:
  • Kazepov Y (ed.): Cities of Europe. Changing Contexts, Local Arrangements, and the Challenge of Urban Cohesion (p. 1- 232)
  • Scott Allen J: Global City Regions: Trends, Theory, Policy
  • Sassen S: The Global City
5. Two of the following:
  • Florida R: The Rise of the Creative Class
  • Zukin S : The Culture of Cities
  • Turley A C : Urban Culture. Exploring Cities and Cultures
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437. Special Field: The Relation between Culture and Social Structure

437. Special Field: The Relation between Culture and Social Structure

Code: 75437 Credits: 8

Literature:

Choose four options (Note: each number is equivalent to one option; i.e. one option may include more than one text):

1.
  • Harrington A : Art and Social Theory
2.
  • Becker H : Art Worlds
3.
  • Abercrombie N & Longhurst B : Audiences
4.
  • Halle D : Inside Culture: Art and Class in the American Home
5.
  • Sassatelli R : Consumer culture : history, theory and politics
6.
  • Gronow J & Warde A (eds.) : Ordinary Consumption

438. Sociology of Integration

Code: 75438 Credits: 8 - 10

Literature:

Choose four options (Note: each number is equivalent to one option; i.e. one option may include more than one text):

1.
  • Therborn G.: European Modernity and Beyond
2.
  • Nieminen A.: Towards a European Society?, s. 9-196
3.
  • Mayes D G et al. (eds.): Social Exclusion and European Policy
4.
  • Elster J, Offe C and Preuss U: Institutional Design in Post-Communist Societies
5.
  • Kvist J & Saari J (Eds): The Europeanisation of Social Protection
6.

Sykes R. et al. (eds.): Globalization and European Welfare States

7.
  • Scharpf F.: Governing in Europe: Effective and Democratic?
8.
  • Kuhnle, S. (ed.): Survival of the European Welfare State

439. Sociology of Science and Technology

Code: 75439 Credits: 8

Literature:

Choose four options (Note: each number is equivalent to one option; i.e. one option may include more than one text):

1.
  • Sismondo S: An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies
2.
  • Ziman J: Real Science: What It Is and What It Means?

3.

  • Latour B: Laboratory Life. The Construction of Scientific Facts

4.

  • Stehr N: Knowledge Societies
5.
  • Jamison A: The Making of Green Knowledge: Environmetal Politics and Cultural Transformation
6.
  • Irwin A & Wynne B (eds.): Misunderstanding Science? The Public Reconstruction of Science and Technology
7.
  • Fuller S: Knowledge Management Foundations

and

  • Häyrinen-Alestalo M, Snell K & Peltola U ”Pushing Universities to Market Their Products. Redefinitions of Academic Activities in Finland” in Kalleberg et al.(eds.): Comparative Perspectives on Universities (Comparative Social Re-search, Vol. 19, 2001: 165-212).

8. Any three numbers of the journal Science Studies.

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4302. Health, mortality and population aging

4302. Health, mortality and population aging

Credits: 8

Literature:

Choose four options (Note: each number is equivalent to one option; i.e. one option may include more than one text):

1.
  • Vallin J and Meslé F, Valkonen T : Trends in mortality and differential mortality , s. 31-88 ja 185-328
2.
  • Harper S (ed.): Families in Aging Societies: Multi-Disciplinary Approach

3.

  • Robine, J.-M.; Crimmins, E.M.; Horiuchi, S.; Zeng, Y. (Eds.): Human Longevity, Individual Life Duration, and the Growth of the Oldest-Old Population Series: International Studies in Population , Vol. 4 2007, XVI, 444 p.,
4.
  • Berkman L. and Kawachi I.: Social Epidemiology

4303. Family formation and fertility

Code: 754303 Credits: 8

Literature:

Choose four options (Note: each number is equivalent to one option; i.e. one option may include more than one text):

1.
  • Douglass C B (ed.): Barren States: The Population Implosion in Europe

2.

  • Jalovaara M: The effects of marriage partners, socioeconomic positions on the risk of divorce in Finland. Väestöliitto 2007
3.
  • Printz C (eds): Cohabiting Married Or Single? Portraying, Analyzing and Modelling New Living Arrangements in the Changing Societies of Europe
4.
  • Oppenheim Mason K & Jensen A-M (eds): Gender and Family Change in Industrialized Countries.
5.
  • Thornton, Arland, William G. Axinn, and Yu Xie: Marriage and Cohabitation. 412 p., 16 line drawings, 29 tables. 6 x 9 2007 Series: (PD) Population and Development Series

4304. Global Population Issues

Literature:

Please choose four options of the following:
1.
  • Eager P W : Global Population Policy: From Population Control to Reproductive Rights
2.
  • Birdsall N ym (eds.): Population Matters: Demographic Change, Economic Growth, and Poverty in the Developing World, p. 1-136, 323-418
3. Corresponds two options
  • Montgomery M ym. (eds.): Cities Transformed: Demographic Change and Its Implications in the Developing World
4.
  • Barnett T & Whiteside A : AIDS in the Twenty-First Century. Disease and Globalization , p. 1-97, 159-241, 271-315
5.
  • Renne E. : Population and Progress in a Yoruba Town
6.
  • Ostergaard-Nielsen E (ed.): International Migration and Sending Countries: Perceptions, Policies and Transnational Relations
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447. Sociology, Bachelor's Thesis

447. Sociology, Bachelor's Thesis

Code: 75447 Credits: 6

Objectives

The student writes a small, literature-based Thesis, using literature from one field of specialization.

Prerequisites

Quantitative and qualitative methods in social research, introductory seminar in scientific writing, and practice essay. It is recommended that the B.Soc.Sc. Thesis is written towards the end of intermediate studies.

Mode of assessment

It is recommendable to write the thesis by revising a paper written for a special area theme seminar. The topic should be discussed with the seminar instructor. Also, a paper written for the qualitative methods course or for some other suitable couse may sometimes be revised to a thesis. If the paper is written in a group, it must be possible to separate the thesis from it clearly so that the independent contribution of the student can be distinguished.

If an appropriate theme seminar is not available, the student can choose a field of specialization in sociology. The subject for the B.Soc.Sc. Thesis is agreed upon with the examiner of the field of specialization in question. The literature used in writing the Thesis can be course material for the field of specialization in question where applicable.

The thesis is submitted to a language teacher of the language in question for language revision. The language teacher marks the thesis on a scale of 0 to 5. If the grade is less than two, the student must make the corrections suggested by the teacher, and submit the thesis for a new revision.

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Master´s Degree in General Sociology

Master´s Degree in General Sociology

Code: 75070 Credits: 120
  • Major subject studies: 105 or 109 credits
  • Elective studies: 11 or 15

Subunits

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408. History and Classics of Sociology

408. History and Classics of Sociology

Code: 75408 Credits: 7

Objectives

The aim is to deepen the student's understanding of classics and history of theoretical development in sociology.

Prerequisites

Completed intermediate studies.

Mode of assessment

Written examination in the Faculty examinations. Two options can be substituted by writing an essay (discuss with the examiner).

Literature:

Choose four of the following books:
  • Lepenies W: Between Literature and Science. The Rise of Sociology
  • Durkheim E: The Elementary Forms of Religious Life or Durkheim E: The Division of Labour in Society
  • Morrison K: Marx, Durkheim, Weber. Formations of Modern Social Thought
  • Weber M: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
  • Frisby D: Georg Simmel
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441. Course on Current Research Projects
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441. Course on Current Research Projects

441. Research Ethics

Code: 75441 Credits: 3

Objectives

The exam book gives guidance on the thesis writing process by discussing important ethical questions relevant to empirical social research.

Prerequisites

The course is most useful at the time when the thesis topic is chosen.

Mode of assessment

  • Book exam in the faculty examination.

Timing

  • Before commencement of the thesis seminar

Literature:

Oliver P: The student’s guide to research ethics

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Advanced Methods in Social Research

Advanced Methods in Social Research

Credits: 15

Content

In addition to the courses arranged by the department, also courses in the so called ‘methods basket’ of the faculty can be chosen. The book examination in qualitative methods is also available. (Note: at least one of the options has to be taken as a course).
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403. Statistics in Social Research - Method Course
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403. Statistics in Social Research - Method Course

403 Statistics in Social Research - Method Course

Code: 75403 Credits: 7

Objectives

The aim is to deepen and broaden students' understanding and user skills of statistical methods in social research and to discuss how appropriate methods for different types of research problems are selected. The necessary computer skills are also practised.

Prerequisites

Study unit Quantitative methods. Completed intermediate studies, introductory course on computing (part of general studies) and supplementary course A, which includes a course on some statistical package (SPSS, SAS, Survo) and introductory course on statistics.

Mode of assessment

Lectures and exercises (if available). The participants practice problem solving by using methods they have learned. There is a final written examination using literature on the basis of guidelines given by the teacher of the course. If the course is not available, discuss the literature and exercises with the examiner.
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632. Methods of Analysis in Qualitative Research

632. Methods of Analysis in Qualitative Research

Code: 75632 Credits: 8

Objectives

The aim of the course is to familiarise the student with a special analytical method in sociology.

Prerequisites

Intermediate studies.

Mode of assessment

Lectures, exercises and a course examination. (If available.) If the course is not available, discuss the literature and the possibility to do exercises with the examiner.
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6321. Methods of Qualitative Analysis - Examination

6321. Methods of Qualitative Analysis - Examination

Code: 756321 Credits: 4

Mode of assessment

Faculty examination

Literature:

  • Seale ym: Qualitataive research practice (Chapters 1-14 and 24-26).
  • Silverman D: Doing qualitative research: a practical handbook
or
  • Layder: Sociological practice: linking theory and social research.
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Fields of Specialisation in Sociology II

Fields of Specialisation in Sociology II

Credits: 8

Objectives

The aim is to deepen the student's knowledge in a specialised field in sociology which is related to the Master's Thesis project.

Prerequisites

Intermediate studies. Choose four options from one of the special fields (see Intermediate studies, Study Units 420-4303).

Mode of assessment

Faculty examination. The written examination, or parts of it, can be substituted by attending lecture series, by writing literature reviews or by participating in a theme seminar arranged by the department. Substitutions have to be agreed upon in advance with the examiner and the courses and essays have to be marked before going to the faculty examination.

Literature:

Choose four options from one of the special fields (see Intermediate studies, Study Units 420-4304).

820. Health Sociology

Code: 75820

Literature:

See intermediate studies, study unit 420:

826. Family Sociology

Code: 75826

Literature:

See intermediate studies, study unit 426: http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/opas2005/sosio/75426/index-en.html

827. Law and Society

Code: 75827

Literature:

See intermediate studies, study unit 427:

7301. Sociology of Childhood

Code: 757301 Credits: 8

Literature:

See intermediate studies, study unit 4301: http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/opas2005/sosio/754301/index-en.html

830. The Sociology of Gender

Code: 75830

Literature:

See intermediate studies, study unit 430:

Courses

832. Social Interaction

Code: 75832

Literature:

See intermediate studies, study unit 432:

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833. Research on Social Structure, Social Conflicts and Inequality

833. Research on Social Structure, Social Conflicts and Inequality

Code: 75833

Literature:

See intermediate studies, study unit 433:

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8331. International Migration and Integration

8331 International Migration and Integration (8 cr)

834. Research on Work and Organizations

Code: 75834

Literature:

See intermediate studies, study unit 434:

Courses

  • Työtä leikkaavat erot? Yhteiskuntatieteellisn sukupuolentutkimuksen näkökulmia työelämään >> 2

835. Urban Sociology

Code: 75835

Literature:

See intermediate studies, study unit 435:

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837. The Relation between Culture and Social Structure

837. The Relation between Culture and Social Structure

Code: 75837

Literature:

See intermediate studies, study unit 437:

838. Sociology of Integration

Code: 75838

Literature:

See intermediate studies, study unit 438:

839. Science and Technology Studies

Code: 75839

Literature:

See intermediate studies, study unit 439:

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8302. Population and Population Processes Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

8302. Health, mortality and population aging

Code: 754302

Literature:

See intermediate studies, study unit 4302:

8303. Family formation and fertility

Code: 7584303

Literature:

See intermediate studies, study unit 4303:

8304. Global Population Issues

Literature:

Literature: See intermediate studies, study unit 4304.

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400. Orientations in Sociological Theory II

400. Orientations in Sociological Theory II

Code: 75400 Credits: 7

Objectives

The aim is to get acquainted with central theoretical orientations in contemporary sociologi-cal research.

Prerequisites

Intermediate studies

Mode of assessment

Written examination in Faculty examination.

Literature:

  • Delanty G (ed.): Handbook of Contemporary European Social Theory luvut 1-4, 13,14,16,17,18,23,26. ,

and in addition two of the following options:

1.
  • Berger P & Luckmann T : Social construction of reality a treatise in the sociology of knowledge
and
  • Schutz A : The Phenomenology of the Social World ( p. 97 - 214).
2.
  • Bourdieu P : La distinction (Chapters 1 – 7 and Conclusion, available also in English)
3.
  • Foucault M : Discipline and Punish

and

  • Burchell G et al. (eds.) : The Foucault Effect (p. 1 - 51 and 87 - 104).
4.
  • Goffman E : Forms of Talk (p. 1 - 159 )

and

  • Goffman E : Interaction Ritual.
5.
  • Habermas J : Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit.
6.
  • Luhmann N : Ecological communication.
7.
  • Skocpol T : States and Social Revolutions.
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410. New Initiatives in Sociological Debate

410. New Initiatives in Sociological Debate

Code: 75410 Credits: 5

Literature:

Three of the following four options:
1.
  • Boltanski L and Chiapello E: The New Spirit of Capitalism
2.
  • Skeggs B: Class, Self Culture
3.
  • Turner J : On the Origins of Human Emotions: A Sociological Inquiry into the Evolution of Human Affect
4.
  • Benhabib S: The Rights of Others
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450. Thesis Seminar

450 Thesis Seminar

Code: 75450 Credits: 20

Literature:

Supplementary material:
  • Kimmel A J: Ethical issues in behavioral research: a survey. Good scientific practice and procedures for handling misconduct and fraud in science. (Available electronically at http://www.tenk.fi/JulkaisutjaOhjeet/htkfi.pdf)
  • (publ.): Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th edition)
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445. Practical Work Training

445. Practical Work Training

Code: 75445 Credits: 5

Objectives

Students interested in the training option are advised to contact the department office.

(Note: voluntary)

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444. Master´s Thesis
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444. Master´s Thesis

444. Master´s Thesis

Code: 754440 Credits: 40

Objectives

The aim is to learn and to practice the conduct of one´s own sociological research.

Prerequisites

The acceptance of the Master's Thesis requires the completion of seminars and foreign language studies.

Mode of assessment

The preparation of a Thesis is mainly an independent process supported by seminar, essays and personal supervision.
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Master´s Degree in Demography

Master´s Degree in Demography

Code: 75071 Credits: 120
  • Major subject studies: 108 or 112 credits
  • Elective studies: 8 or 12 credits

Subunits

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238. European population issues

238. European population issues

Code: 75238 Credits: 7

Objectives

The aim is to further familiarise the student with population development and its social significance in European countries and to learn to understand demography’s way of looking at society.

Prerequisites

Introduction to Demography, unit 140. Population of Europe.

Mode of assessment

Faculty examination. If appropriate courses are available, part of the unit can be substituted by attending the courses.

Literature:

Four of the following:
  • Livi-Bacci M: The Population of Europe (2000)
  • Coleman D (ed): Europe's Population in the 1990s
  • Lutz W, Richter R and C Wilson (eds.): The New Generations of Europeans. Demography and Families in the Enlarged European Union. IIASA and Earthscan 2006
  • Drew E & Emerek R & Mahon E (eds): Women, Work and the Family in Europe
  • Blotevogel H H & Fielding A J (eds): People, Jobs and Mobility in the New Europe (s. 1-119, 189-225 and 297-304)
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251. Development of and research frameworks in demography

251. Development of and research frameworks in demography

Code: 75251 Credits: 5

Objectives

The aim is to familiarise the student with commonly used explanatory and theoretical frameworks in Demography.

Prerequisites

Introduction to Demography, unit 140. Population of Europe. In addition unit 238 of the Master’s studies (European Population Issuess) is recommended.

Mode of assessment

Faculty examination. If appropriate courses are available, part of the unit can be substituted by attending the courses.

Literature:

  • Pitkänen K: Väestöntutkimus ja yhteiskunta. Suomalaisen väestöntutkimuksen historia 1700-luvulta noin vuoteen 1950
  • Caldwell JC: Demographic transition theory
  • Jones G W ym. (eds.): The Continuing Demographic Transition (1998) reprinted 2004
Artikkeleita:
  • Notes and Commentary: Causal Analysis in the Population Sciences – a Symposium. Population and Development Review September 2003, Vol. 29, No. 3, 443-479.
  • Máire Ní Bhrolcháin, Tim Dyson: On Causation in Demography: Issues and Illustrations . Population and Development Review March 2007, Vol. 33, No. 1
  • Preston SH: The changing relation between mortality and level of economic development. Population Studies, Vol. 29, No. 2, July 1975. Int J Epidemiol. 2007 Jun;36(3):484-90
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  • Int J Epidemiol. 2007 Jun;36(3):491-2.
  • Int J Epidemiol. 2007 Jun;36(3):492-4.
  • Int J Epidemiol. 2007 Jun;36(3):494-5.
  • Int J Epidemiol. 2007 Jun;36(3):496-7.
  • Int J Epidemiol. 2007 Jun;36(3):498-9.
  • Int J Epidemiol. 2007 Jun;36(3):500-1.
  • McKeown T: Medical issues in historical demography. Int J Epidemiol. 2005 Jun;34(3):515-20.
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  • Int J Epidemiol. 2005 Jun;34(3):521-4.
  • Int J Epidemiol. 2005 Jun;34(3):525-6.
  • Int J Epidemiol. 2005 Jun;34(3):526-9.
  • Int J Epidemiol. 2005 Jun;34(3):529-33.
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231. Demographic Method

231. Demographic Methods

Code: 75231 Credits: 6

Objectives

The aim of the course is to familiarize the student with essential sources of demographic data (statistical publications, databases in internet) and to train students to coduct demographic analyses.

Prerequisites

Introduction to Demography, Introductory seminar to scientific writing and Statistics in Social Research Methods Course

Mode of assessment

Course in demographic methods or faculty examination

Literature:

  • Readings in Population Research Methodology (Vol I, Basic Tools, p. 3-1 – 3-49 and 4-1 – 4-45)
  • Hinde: Demographic Methods (The students use the methods they learn to make independ-ent demographic analysis and to write and submit a course paper.)
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536. Advanced Methods in Demographic Analysis

536. Advanced Methods in Demographic Analysis

Code: 75536 Credits: 4

Objectives

The aim is to expand the student's knowledge about the methods used in demographic research.

Prerequisites

Intermediate studies in demography.

Mode of assessment

A course, or, if no courses are organized, the student should contact the professor of demography to discuss the possibilities to complete the study unit in an alternative way (a Faculty examination based on literature, or, practical exercises).
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531. Specialised Field in Demography

531. Specialised Field in Demography

Code: 75531 Credits: 5

Objectives

The aim is to familiarize the student with the field of demography relevant to her/his forthcoming Master's Thesis.

Prerequisites

Intermediate studies in demography.

Mode of assessment

Faculty examination based on literature. The literature is agreed upon with the supervisor of the Master's Thesis.
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532. Fields of Specialisation in Demography

532. Fields of Specialisation in Demography II

Code: 75532 Credits: 8

Objectives

The aim is to expand the student's knowledge about the various fields of specialisation in demography.

Prerequisites

Intermediate studies in demography.

Mode of assessment

Faculty examination. It is possible to replace part of the reading with a lecture course or with an essay, but approval for this must be obtained before the examination.

Literature:

Four of the following:
1. Mortality:
  • Chamie J & Cliquet R L (eds): Health and Mortality Issues of Global Concern (pp. 1-182 and 285-408)
  • Jean-Marie Robine, Carol Jagger, Colin D. Mathers, Eileen M. Crimmins, Richard M. Suzman: Determining Health Expectancies ISBN: 978-0-470-84397-Hardcover 444 pages November 2002
*2. Fertility:
  • Leete R (ed.): Dynamics of Values in Fertility Change (pp. 3 - 292, 357 - 369)
  • Bledsoe C & Lerner S & Guyer J I (eds.): Fertility and the Male Life-cycle in the Era of Fertility Decline (chapters 1,2,4,6,8 and 11-14)
3. Family demography:
  • Gustafsson, Siv; Kalwij, Adriaan (Eds.): Education and Postponement of Maternity Economic Analyses for Industrialized Countries Series: European Studies of Population , Vol. 15 2006, XIII, 325 p.
4. Migration:
  • Massey D S & Taylor J E (eds.): International Migration: Prospects and Policies in a Global Market
5. Anthropological demography:
  • Basu A M & Aaby P (eds): The Methods and Uses of Anthropological Demography

6. Demography of the Developing World:

  • Dyson T : Population and Food. Global Trends and Future Prospects AND
  • Notkola V & Siiskonen H : Fertility, Mortality and Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Case of Ovamboland in North Namibia, 1925-90
7. Global demography
  • Lutz W (ed): The Future Population of the World. What Can We Assume Today? (s. 45-249)
  • Lutz W & Sanderson W & Scherbov S(eds.): The End of World Population Growth in the 21st Century: New Challenges for Human Capital Formation and Sustainable Development
  • Presser H B & G Sen (eds): Women’s Empowerment and Demographic Processes: Moving Beyond Cairo (2000), s. 3-156, 287-317, 351-412
8. Historical demography:
  • McQuillan K : Culture, Religion and Demographic Behaviour: Catholics and Lutherans in Alsace, 1750-1870
  • Schofield R & Reher D & Bideau A (eds): The Decline of Mortality in Europe (s. 1-67, 158-195, 233-262)
  • Bideau A & Desjardins B & Pérez Brignoli H (eds): Infant and Child Mortality in the Past (s. 22-60, 109-134, 157-173, 276-300)
Historical demography in Finland
  • Pitkänen K : Deprivation and Disease: Mortality During the Great Finnish Famine of the 1860s
  • Notkola, I-L : Luonnollisesta hedelmällisyydestä lapsirajoitukseen
*10. Population policy
  • Gauthier A H : The State and the Family: A Comparative Analysis of Family Policies in Industrialized Countries
  • Lassonde L : Coping With Population Challenges
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535. Practical Training in Demographic Study

535. Practical Training in Demographic Study

Code: 75535 Credits: 5

Objectives

The aim is to provide the student with practice in demographic research.

Prerequisites

It is suggested that training takes place after study unit 448 (Seminar I) has been completed.

Mode of assessment

The training is obligatory for those majoring in demography. For instructions contact the professor of demography.
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Sociology and Demography as a Minor Subject

Sociology and Demography as a Minor Subject

Subunits

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Basic Studies in Sociology for Minor Subject Students

Basic Studies in Sociology for Minor Subject Students

Credits: 25
Basic minor subject studies in sociology consist of study units 101, 110, 111 and 105, parts 1 and 2.

Sociological Perspectives and Social Research

Code: 751051 Credits: 3

Literature:

  • Giddens A : Sociology

Sociological Perspectives and Social Research

Code: 751052 Credits: 7
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Intermediate Studies in Sociology for Minor Subject Students

Intermediate studies for Minor Subject Students

Credits: 35
  • Intermediate level minor subject studies in sociology consist of study units 122, 129, 130, 134, 140 and one of the fields of specialization in sociology (units 420 to 4303)

134. Orientations in Sociologiacal Theory

Code: 75134 Credits: 7

Objectives

The aim is to acquaint students systematically with different theoretical orientations in sociology.

Prerequisites

Basic studies and study unit 129.

Mode of assessment

Faculty examination.

Literature:

  • Harrington A (ed.): Modern Social Theory
  • Wagner P: Theorizing Modernities
  • Beck U & Beck-Gersheim E: Individualization

122. Methods of Empirical Social Research

Code: 75122

Objectives

The aim is to provide the student with the capability to critically review and make use of social research conducted by ordinary methods. The aim of the exercises is to give the student an ability to conduct minor research projects in using existing or limited self-collected data.

Prerequisites

Basic Studies.

Mode of assessment

(Note: Only for minor subject students and exchange students). Students, please discuss the literature with the examiner.

Literature:

  • Babbie E: The Practice of Social Research, 10th or 11th Edition
  • Silverman, D.: Interpreting qualitative data. Methods for analysing talk, text and interaction (Third edition), Chapters 3-7 (p. 65-267)
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Demorgaphy, Basic Studies

Demography, basic studies

Code: 75017 Credits: 25
Scope cr 25
  • 111. Introduction to Demography (5 cr)
  • 140. The Population of Europe (4 cr)

And two of the following:

  • 4302. Health, mortality and population aging (8 cr)
  • 4303. Family formation and fertility (8 cr)
  • 4304. Global population issues (8 op)

Courses

1. Sosiaalitutkimuksen kvalitatiiviset menetelmät, syksy

1. Sosiaalitutkimuksen kvantitatiivisten menetelmien kurssi, syksy

1. Sosiologian johdantokurssi, syksy

1. Väestötieteen johdantokurssi, syksy

2. Sosiaalitutkimuksen kvalitatiiviset menetelmät, kevät

2. Sosiologian johdantokurssi, kevät

Arbets- och professionssociologi

Changing Dynamics of Science and Technology - Finland in a global perspective

Etnicitet, identitet, nationalism

Etnografisten menetelmien kurssi

Eurooppalainen hyvinvointivaltio ja sosiaaliset ohjelmat

Giddens-opintopiirit

Graduvirikekurssi

Introduction to Social Semiotics, Part 2: Constructing agency

Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology

Jäähyväisluentoja teorioista ja klassikoista

Kandidaatintutkielman tarkastukseen jättäminen webOodissa

Kaupunkisosiologian tutkimusalakurssi

Kvalitatiivisen tutkimuksen analyysimenetelmät

Kvalitatiivisen tutkimuksen analyysimenetelmät: keskustelunanalyysi

Kvantitatiivisten menetelmien jatkokurssi: Tapaushistoriamallien kurssi

Käsitteet sosiologisessa tutkimuksessa

Kön och samhälle

Lapsuus ja talous

Lisääntymisterveys ja syntyvyys Afrikassa

Nuorisotutkimuksen uusia suuntauksia - verkkokurssi

Oikeussosiologian teoreettiset perusteet

Politics on the Move

Proseminaari

Qualitative Methods in Social Research

Rahapelit modernissa yhteiskunnassa ja kulttuurissa

Reflektiivinen teemahaastattelu

Regulating Lifestyles in the Welfare State 2009. Theme: Youth

Sosiaali- ja kulttuuriantropologian johdantokurssi

Sosiaalinen muutos Venäjällä ja itäisessä Keski-Euroopassa

Sosiaalinen vuorovaikutus

Sosiaalitutkimuksen kvantitatiivisten menetelmien kurssi, kevät

Sosiologian käsitteiden historiaa ja nykykritiikkiä

Sosiologian laitoksen tutkimusalojen esittely

Study Circle: Handbook of Contemporary European Social Theory

Sukupuoli Venäjällä ja Neuvostoliitossa

Sukupuoli, väkivalta ja oikeus

Suomalaisen sosiologian tutustumiskurssi

Tenttilukupiiri, kevät

Tenttilukupiiri, syksy

The International Migration System Today

The Nordic Welfare States, Lectures

The Nordic Welfare States, Seminar

The Swedish Speaking Finns in a Comparative Perspective

Tilastollisen sosiaalitutkimuksen menetelmäkurssi

Työtä leikkaavat erot? Yhteiskuntatieteellisn sukupuolentutkimuksen näkökulmia työelämään

Väestötieteen johdantokurssi, kevät

Väestötieteen linjan tutkielmaseminaari

Väestötieteen menetelmäkurssi I, Methods in Demography I

Yleisen sosiologian graduryhmä (Kosonen)

Yleisen sosiologian graduryhmä (Sulkunen)

Yleisen sosiologian tutkielmaseminaari Kortteinen

pro gradu seminarium (Strandell)

yleisen sosiologian tutkielmaseminaari: kollektiivinen toiminta ja sosiaaliset liikkeet ja demokratia