Arbetsgrupper vid nordiska
sociologkongressen i Åbo  18-20.8.2006 

Arbetsmarknad och arbetsmiljö / Work market and work context
Koordinator: Kjeld Nielsen, kjeld@socsci.aau.dk )

Arbejdslivets forandringer

Udviklingen i samfund, teknologi og organisation stiller andre krav til arbejdsstyrken i dag end tidligere. Flere i arbejdsstyrken bruger deres viden, kvalifikationer, ressourcer i bred forstand i skiftende arbejdsprocesser og på skiftende arbejdstider. Det er formålet at belyse en lang række emner inden for arbejdslivets forandringer, som fokuserer på sammenhængen mellem ændrede krav på arbejdsmarkedet og arbejdssociale konsekvenser. Det kan f.eks. være ændrede opfattelser af arbejdsbegrebet, arbejdets forandring i et globaliseret perspektiv, videnarbejde, ændrede normer og social integration i arbejdslivet, teamorganisering af arbejdet, fleksibilitetsformer i arbejdslivet, ændrede ledelses- og medarbejderrelationer, arbejdsmiljø, trivsel og arbejdsglæde, arbejdets betydning, teknologi og arbejdsorganisation, konfliktrelationer, kvalifikations- og kompetenceudvikling, virksomhedens sociale ansvar etc.

Artikeludkast og papers, der inden for temarammen behandler teoretiske og/eller empiriske problemstillinger – gerne på et samfunds-, sektor- eller virksomhedsniveau - er velkomne.

Fredag 18.8. 16.00 - 19.15

16.00 – 16.15 Presentation and organizing

16.15 – 16.45 Tuomo Alasoini: Nordic exceptionalism' on the wane? The case of meaningfulness of work among Finnish employees
Opp. Tiina Soininen

16.45 – 17.15 Gunnar Augustsson & Gunilla Olofsdotter: Se oss inte som outsiders! - Mentalt gränsarbete bland inhyrda bemanningskonsulter
Opp.: Liisa Lähteenmäki

17.15 – 17.45 Break

17.45 – 18.15 Liisa Lähteenmäki: Temporary agency work - making-up of a new worker?
Opp.: Anna Kontula

18.15 – 18.45 Sanna Laulainen: Agency in the Discussion on Performance – Challenges and Management related to Multi-professional Work
Opp.: Natalia Karotom

18.45 – 19.15 Gunilla Olofsdotter :Flexibilitet - frihet eller tvång?  Vinnare och förlorare i personaluthyrningens spår
Opp.: Mikkel Bo Madsen

Lördag 19.8. 09.00 - 12.00

09.00 – 09.30 Paavo Bergman: Kvinna bland stålmän
Opp. Gunnar Augustsson

09.30 – 10.00 Anna Kontula: If sex was work, what kind of work would it be?
Opp. Rannveig Dahle

10.00 – 10.30 Helen Peterson: Power Shifts in the new economy
Opp.: Paavo Bergman

10.30 – 11.00 Break

11.00 – 11.30 Tiina Soininen: Workforce Recruitment in Restructuring Labour Markets
Opp.: Johanna Overrud

11.30 – 12.00 Kjeld Nielsen: Social integration – en blind plet i dansk arbejdsmiljøforskning?
Opp.: Tuomo Alasoini

Söndag 20.08. 09.00 - 12.00

09.00 – 09.30 Mikkel Bo Madsen: Work life transformations in Danish production enterprises responding to changes in the global economic space of flows.
Opp.: Arja Tyrkkö

09.30 – 10.00 Johanna Overrud & Arja Tyrkkö: Konsekvenser av regionaliseringen av arbetsmarknadspolitiken
Opp.: Patrick Nordin

10.00 – 10.30 Patrick Nordin: The Role of Pan-European Trade Union and Employer Confederations in Shaping the Industrial Relations in Europe
Opp.: Helen Peterson

10.30 – 11.00 Break

11.00 – 11.30 Natalia Karotom: Employee`s new Aspirations: Distinction and Differentiation (Paper presentation?)

Barn/barndomssociologi / Sociology of children/childhood
Koordinator: Maria Eriksson, maria.eriksson@wmst.gu.se
& Elisabet Näsman elisabet.nasman@soc.uu.se

This group takes critical perspectives developed within the ‘new social studies of childhood’ as the point of departure, perspectives that problematise and deconstruct explicit or implicit constructions of children/young people, adults and child-adult relations where adultness is the norm and children/young people are portrayed as dependent and unfinished beings, not-yet fully human: as “half-developed” or “half-socialized”. The claim that children/young people analytically should be treated as social actors among other social actors is thus placed centrally. Furthermore, everyday experiences of children and young people actually living in the social world as ‘a child’ or ‘youth’ are treated as research topics in their own right. The aim of the group is to continue the debates on theory, methodology and ethics within the study of children/young people and childhood that has been developing over the years in the Nordic sociological community. At this meeting we especially welcome contributions that focus on children as social actors in encounters with institutions, organisations, and/or professional groups. Other empirical and theoretical papers on children/young people and childhood are of course also welcome.

Fredag 18.8. 15.30-18.30

Ahlberg, Jenny: Barn som relation
Commentator: Elizabeth Fern

Angel, Bjørn Øystein: Barns selvpresentasjoner som barneperspektiv
Commentator : Kim Kullman

Aapola-Kari, Sinikka: Cute, celebrated, comical? Representations of Children and Young People in Media Portraits
Commentator : Jenny Ahlberg

Coffee

Oinas, Elina: Empowering Girls? Pippigirls and Situated Agency
Commentator: Sinikka Aapola-Kari

Kullman, Kim: Schoolchildren, Mobility and Urban Traffic
Commentator : Susanna Hoikkala

Forsberg, Lucas: Negotiating public/private in Swedish families: Moral dilemmas in participant observation with video
Commentator: Bjørn Øystein Angel

Lördag 19.8. 09.00-12.00

Harrison, Christine: Sorry not safe: Children's experiences of contact in the context of domestic violence
Commentator : Guðrún Kristinsdóttir

Eriksson, Maria & Näsman, Elisabet: Witness, victim, actor? Notions of children who experience men's violence to women in their families
Commentator : Elina Oinas

Coffee

Kristinsdóttir, Guðrún:“Delicate but important” – “Very urgent matter but...” Matters of access in a study of children's knowledge of violence in the home
Commentator : Elisabet Näsman

Timofeeva, Irina: Women working in shelters for women in Stockholm and St-Petersburg: attitudes towards domestic violence against women and its connection to domestic violence against children
Commentator: Chris Harrison

Fern, Elizabeth: The minority report: children as consultants in social work research
Commentator : Lucas Forsberg

Söndag 20.8. 09.00-12.00

Pringle, Keith: Ageism towards children in the Nordic Welfare Systems: an intersectional perspective
Commentator: Maren Bak & Kerstin von Brömssen

Pekkarinen, Elina: Young Delinquents in Child Welfare
Commentator : Irina Timofeeva

Coffee

Njáls, Harpa: Välfärd på Island i jämförelse med de övriga nordiska länderna
Commentator : Björn Halleröd

Bernburg, Jon Gunnar: Community social disorganization and adolescent property crime in Iceland, PRESENTATION CANCELLED.

Ekonomisk sociologi / Economic sociology
Coordinator: Jani Erola, jani.erola@tukkk.fi
Co-coordinator: Mikko Niemelä, mikko.niemela@utu.fi

The work shop covers an extensive array of economic sociology themes, demonstrat ing a growth in interest in this expanding sociological subfield. The examples of the covered topics are: economic sociology and social theory, sociology and economics, new developments in economic sociology, economic sociology of work, employment, class and family, income, poverty and wealth, economic inequality and stratification, economic systems, markets and institutions, economy and welfare states, and economic sociology of culture.

The list of topics/themes should serve as a guide and proposals that do not fit directly into these themes are also welcome.

Fredag 18.8. 15.30-18.30

15.30-15.55 Trond Løyning: Regulation and Networks: The Strength of Weak Regulation
                         
15.55-16.20 Arto Kankaanpää and Mikko Pohjola: Embeddedness, Business Networks and Social Capital.   
                      
16.20-16.45 Robert Hagfors & Jouko Kajanoja: Welfare regimes and aspects of social capital when inequality matters. 
                
16.45-17.10 Akvile Motiejunaite: Family policy, employment and gender roles: comparative analysis of Russia and Sweden.

Optional break of 5 minutes  
       
17.15-17.40 Harri Melin & Raimo Blom: Inequality, classes and social divisions.   

17.40-18.05 Jani Erola: Determinants of class in Finland - parental class, parental income or educational choices? 

18.05-18.30 Mikko Niemelä: Perceptions on the Causes of Poverty in Finland.   

Papers to be distributed:

Mia Hakovirta: Lone mothers between work and care. The recommodification policy and employment. 

Etnicitet och migration / Ethnicity and migration
Koordinator: Östen Wahlbeck, osten.wahlbeck@abo.fi
Bikoordinator: Matti Similä, matti.simila@helsinki.fi

Denna arbetsgrupp välkomnar bidrag som från ett sociologiskt perspektiv behandlar frågor kring internationell migration och etniska relationer. Bidragen kan t.ex. presentera forskning om etnicitet, rasism, nationalism, internationell migration, flyktingar, invandrares integration, transnationalism eller diaspora. Arbetsgruppen välkomnar bidrag som anknyter till tidigare sociologisk forskning och aktuell akademisk diskussion inom forskningsområdet.

Fredag 18.8. 15.30-18.30

15.30-15.45 Organization and introduction

15.45-16.25
Lalita Gola & Tuomas Martikainen: Immigrant women from India, Nepal and Sri Lanka in Finland
Commentator: Lotta Haikkola

16.25-17.00
Lotta Haikkola: Shifting identities, varying belongings. Children of immigrant backgrounds in Finland.
Commentator: Eiri Elvestad

17.00-17.35
Eiri Elvestad: Stedstilknytning og mediebruk blant norske vietnamesere i Norge.
Commentators: Tuomas Martikainen & Lalita Gola

Lördag 19.8. 09.15 - 12.00

09.15 - 09.50
Mari Kivitalo: The trajectories of migrants to rural town.
Commentator: Suvi Nieminen

09.50 - 10.25
Suvi Nieminen: Immigrant nurses in Finland: In whose interests, in which conditions?
Commentator: Saila Piippola

10.25-10.45 short break

10.45-11.20
Saila Piippola: Rethinking identity/crossing national borders
Commentators: Pekka Rantanen & Jarno Valkonen

11.20-11.55
Pekka Rantanen & Jarno Valkonen: Practice of wild berry picking in Finnish Lapland: Discourses and practices of globalization and locality.
Commentator: Mari Kivitalo

Söndag 20.8. 10.00 - 11.45 (Preliminary)

10.30-11.05
Tuomas Martikainen: Immigrant Governance through Voluntary Associations: Perspectives on Muslim Organisations and Public Authorities in Finland

11.05-11.40

Wahlbeck, Östen: The "Ethnic Economy" of Turkish Immigrants in Finland.
Commentator: Geir Grenersen

Feminism, metodologi och förändring / Feminism, methodology and change
Coordinator: Jutta Ahlbeck-Rehn, juahlbec@abo.fi

Feminist methodological and epistemological questions regarding social research are constantly undergoing changes and meeting new challenges. What makes social research “feminist”, how can gender serve as an analytical category, and what are the impacts of feminist methodologies? The session addresses questions on how different forms of knowledge are being produced, and explores how rules in the production of knowledge are being implemented. The session invites papers with an interest in different ways of doing feminist research that take into account the relations between method(ology), power and ethics. Papers dealing with methodological issues concerning feminist research and feminist theory are encouraged. Both empirical and theoretical papers are welcomed. Suggested themes include: qualitative methods, quantitative methods, ethnographic approaches, post-colonial approaches, life histories, science and technology studies, methodology and power, intersectionality, and interpretation, experience and subjectivity.

Fredag 18.8. 15.30 - 18.30
EXPLORING EXPERIENCES AND EMOTIONS IN AND THROUGH FEMINIST RESEARCH

15.30 Gyda Margret Petursdottir: Surviving the field: Six strategies
Discussant: Tiina Suopajärvi

16.05 Tiina Suopajärvi: The “Real” Experiences of Female Forestry Professionals and the Abstract Female
Discussant: Gyda Margret Petursdottir

16.40 Break

17.00 Noora Talsi: Recognizing Differences with Ethnographical Methods
Discussant: Katja Repo

17.35 Katja Repo: Working mothers talking about the care of their children
Discussant: Noora Talsi


Lördag 19.8. 09.00 - 10.30
GENDERED TEXTS AND THE SUBJECTS OF KNOWLEDGE

09.00 Pia Liljeroth: Retorikanalys av medicinska artiklar – attöppna en ”svart låda”
Discussant: Kari Vik

09.35 Lotta Hautamäki: Depression and femininity - Readings from Finnish depression guidance texts in a genealogical approach
Discussant: Kirsi Eräranta

10.10 Kari Vik: What is the impact of dissolutions of rituals connected to childbirth?
Discussant: Pia Liljeroth


Söndag 20.8. 09.00 - 11.00
ON INTERVIEWS AND THE FEMINIST POSITION

09.00 Kirsti Lempiäinen: Expert interviews as a data collecting method: towards feminist methodologies
Discussant: Eeva Luhtakallio

09.35 Eeva Luhtakallio: Are women citizens like others?
Discussant: Kirsti Lempiäinen

10.10 Kirsi Eräranta: Feminist analytics of government?
Discussant: Lotta Hautamäki

10.45 Free discussion

Festandets sociologi / Sociology of celebration
Coordinator: Ismo Kantola, ikantola@utu.fi
Co-coodinator: Antti Maunu, antti.maunu@stakes.fi

Having a party or a ball or a feast, or going to clubs or raves or discos - all these social phenomena provide sociology with a genuine starting point for research - empirical as well as theoretical -  on party cultures. There are various conceptual toolboxes and orientations available for the study of people having fun together. Thus for example the time of a party may be understood as cyclic compared to the linear time of the quotidian toil. Partying may well include transgressions of social rules of normal life outside the party (Maffesoli). Partying contains and reproduces elements of distinction and sociality (Bourdieu; Thornton; Hennion) as well as identity and meaning giving ( Butler ). The carnivals have a horisontal as well as a vertical socio-semantic dimension (Bakhtin). There are opposite directions to approach the materialisation of the experience about a party: the structures of feeling are solidified collectively into a shared experience
(Williams), or the experience originates first and foremost from the fact of the individual's corporeal existence in World (Merleau-Ponty).
Empirical, theoretical, and methodological papers on the study of feasts, carnivals, parties, clubbing and the like are all welcome. The group will be pioneering for a shared view on the sociological study of party cultures.

Fredag 18.8. 15.30 - 18.30

Terhi Toppala & Johanna Nurmi & Annamari Konttinen:
Gender Performances in a Finnish Restaurant with Dancing
(comment: Antti Maunu <antti.maunu@stakes.fi>)

Jukka Törrönen & Antti Maunu:
"Great emotions, serious partying". Visual analysis of Helsinki nightclub websites
(comment: Terhi Toppala <tttopp@utu.fi> & Johanna Nurmi <johnurm@utu.fi>)

Airi-Alina Allaste:
Staying "cool", having fun or getting addicted?
(comment: Karen Elmeland <karen.elmeland@mail.dk>)

Anu-Hanna Anttila:
The transition from work to leisure and from everyday life to celebration
(comment: Mats Franzen <mats.franzen@ibf.uu.se>)


Lördag 19.8. 09.00 - 12.00

Bergljot Baklien:
Usynlig teater som metode
(comment: Katariina Warpenius <katariina.warpenius@stakes.fi>)

Katariina Warpenius:
"I´ll have a pint!" An actor-assisted restaurant purchase experiment
(comment: Bergljot Baklien <bb@sirus.no>)

Angus Bancroft:
Places and practices of intoxication
(comment: Anu-Hanna Anttila <anantti@utu.fi>)

Karen Elmeland:
Why is it fun to be intoxicated?
(comment: Ismo Kantola <ikantola@utu.fi>)


Söndag 20.8. 09.00 - 12.00

Mats Franzen:
Glamour scenes, glamour zone. The case of Stockholm
(comment: Jukka Törrönen <jukka.torronen@stakes.fi>)

Antti Maunu:
A methodology of celebration. Notes towards semiotic analysis of festive interaction.
(comment: Airi-Alina Allaste <alina@ehi.ee>)

Ismo Kantola:
The role of feeling in celebration. -- How to study it?
(comment: Angus Bancroft <angus.bancroft@ed.ac.uk>)

Concluding discussion

Idrottssociologi / Sociology of sport
Koordinator: Tomas Peterson, tomas.peterson@lut.mah.se)

Humanistisk och samhällsvetenskaplig idrottsforskning har i Sverige dominerats av pedagoger, psykologer och historiker, som i mångt och mycket tagit sin utgångspunkt i den ideella idrottsrörelsen, i idrott som fysisk aktivitet eller i idrottens fostran och dess dygder. Men i takt med idrottens tilltagande professionalisering, kommersialisering och globalisering har även andra forskningsdiscipliner kommit att intressera sig för idrotten och dess utveckling som fysisk aktivitet och socialisationsarena, men även som underhållningsindustri vilket är ett sent tillägg i gängse idrottsforskning. Det behövs framöver en idrottssociologi som kan bidra med en förståelse av idrotten som å ena sidan grundar sig på att den representerar ett avgränsat socialt fält, identifierbart genom sin verksamhetslogik. Samtidigt är detta fält, å andra sidan, bestämt av det omgivande samhällets dominerande institutioner som stat, medier och marknad, av strukturella faktorer som klass, genus och etnicitet samt av processer som globalisering, kommersialisering och professionalisering. I denna anda inbjuds härmed till deltagande i den idrottssociologiska arbetsgruppen.

Fredag 18.8. 15.30 - 18.30

Stephen G Wieting & Nicole H.W.Civettini:
How Sport Preserves Cultural Memory in Performance and Biography: Elite Women Gymnasts in China, Romania, Russian, and the US.
Commentator: Annika Eliasson.

Mats Franzén &Tomas Peterson: A dynamic study of gender differences in Swedish youth football.
Commentator: Runar Vilhjalmsson.

Jon Helge Lesjø: Unlocking the IOC: Challenges for a Global Sport Institution
Commentator: Stephen G Wieting & Nicole H.W.Civettini.

Lördag 19.8. 09.00-12.00

Annika Eliasson: Har platsen ett pris?
Commentator: Tomas Peterson.

Jonas Stier: Pro-life, identity, role exit: A social psychological study of ex-tennis players.
Commentator: Jon Helge Lesjø.

Runar Vilhjalmsson: Organized sports involvement among young people: Determinants and consequences.
Commentator: Mats Franzén.

Tomas Peterson: When the fields are crossed
Commentator: Jonas Stier

Konsumtion och livsstil / Consumption and lifestyles
Coordinator: Pekka Räsänen, pekka.rasanen@utu.fi
Co-coordinator: Terhi-Anna Wilska, terhi-anna.wilska@tukkk.fi

There is a growing interest in sociological research looking at consumption. According to many famous writers, we are living in consumer society in which consumer practices provide the basis for our lifestyles, identities and daily routines and practices. While the social effects of individual consumption are acknowledged in contemporary research in general, there are many questions that have not been dealt properly. For example, the relationship between consumption, lifestyles and identities is still rather blurred. On what grounds can we define and distinguish the new lifestyle consumption? What is the real role of consumption in the creation of people’s identities? What kind of structural differences are there in the expression of consumers’ lifestyles? Are there national similarities and differences when employing various measures for consumption patterns? Do consumption patterns still vary according to socio-economic background?

Both theoretical and empirical papers that address the general issues related to consumption and lifestyles are welcome. Language of the theme group is English.

Workshop programme:

Friday 18.8. at 15.30 - 18.30

15.30 Pekka Räsänen & Terhi-Anna Wilska: Welcome words

15.40  Taru Virtanen: Ideal type cultural omnivores and reality? Examining fluctuating cultural tastes among Europeans

16.00  Nina Kahma: Collecting data on taste and cultural hierarchies by means of focus group interviews

16.20 Leena Haanpää: Towards a coherent conceptualization of environmentally responsible consumer behaviour

16.40 Iñigo Mielgo Salcedo: The safety net of Ikea

17.00 Anu Katainen: Images of smoking and socio-economic patterning of the cigarette consumption

17.20 Sari Pekkola: Musik och identitet - om unga kvinnors identitetsarbete i vardagslivet

17.40 Elina Haavio-Mannila & Anna Rothkirch: Sexuality  Strategies Patterns and Social Stratification among Young Men in St. Petersburg and Finland

18.00 General discussion

Miljösociologi / Environmental sociology

Arbetsgrupp i miljösociologi
Sociologer och forskare i närliggande samhällsvetenskaper som forskar i frågor som berör olika aspekter av ’samhälle - natur’, ’samhälle – teknologi’ eller ’det sociala och det miljömässiga’ är välkomna att sända in bidrag till arbetsgruppen i miljösociologi. Såväl forskare med empirisk som teoretisk inriktning är välkomna. Vi kommer att utse en första kommentator för varje bidrag och ge rikligt med rum för diskussioner. Arbetsgruppen kommer att fungera på både skandinaviska språk och engelska.

WG in Environmental Sociology
We welcome all of you who are interested in the relationship between human and nature; environment and social; technology and society to take part to this workshop. Especially, we welcome all of you who are trying to bridge these dichotomies in your own research. Both empirical studies and theoretical elaborations are welcomed. We will point discussants for each paper and try to leave plenty of time for discussion. The language of the workshop is Scandinavian and English.

Som koordinatorer fungerar Erland Eklund och Minna Kaljonen. Vänligen kommunicera med oss båda direkt per e-mail.

Erland Eklund and Minna Kaljonen are co-ordinating the group. Please communicate direct with both of us per e-mail.

Erland Eklund
Svenska social- och kommunalhögskolan, Helsingfors universitet
Email: erland.eklund@helsinki.fi

Minna Kaljonen
Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Research Programme for Environmental Policy
Email: minna.kaljonen@ymparisto.fi

Fredag 18.8. 15.30 - 18.30

15.30 – 15.35 Welcome - Välkommen by Erland & Minna

15.35 - 16.15 Leena Suopajärvi: Socially Sustainable Forestry in Northern Finland
Discussant Susanna

16.15 – 16.55 Tommi Sulkala & Timo P. Karjalainen: Framing the Environmental Issue: A comparative analysis of Northern Finland and Northern Russia
Discussant Erland

16.55 – 17.10 Coffee break

17.10 – 17.50 Marja Ylönen: Moral regulation of water Pollution. The Case of Finland from the 1960's till 2000
Discussant Minna

17.50 – 18.30 Minna Kaljonen: Scale and agri-environmental governance
Discussant Marja

Lördag 19.8. 09.00 - 11.20

09.00 – 09.40 Pekka Salmi: Protecting Nature or Fishing Livelihood?
Discussant Tommi/Timo

09.40– 10.20 Susanna Björkell: Samplanering som metod för naturskyddets legitimering
Discussant Leena

10.20 – 10.40 Coffee break

10.40– 11.20 Erland Eklund: Hållbar Naturresursförvaltning i komplicerade system
Discussant Pekka

Workshop programme:

Friday 18.8. at 15.30 - 18.30

chaired by Catharina Lojander-Visapää

Petra Aigner: Political versus Everyday Discourses about Immigration in contemporary Austria. The Dissolution of Political Charisma
Comment: Elina Kestilä

Jenny Kallstenius: ”Blir det någon integration, då?” - en diskussion kring huruvida det aktiva skolvalet leder till en ökad integration av elever med utländsk bakgrund
Comment: Pia Nyman-Kurkiala

Inigo Mielgo Salcedo: The Totemic Meaning of Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao
Comment: Petra Aigner

Maria Kreander: The Finland Swedes. From a movement to an institutionalised ethnic minority.
Comment: Jenny Kallstenius

Peter A. Kraus: New heterogeneity, multilingualism and political integration in European cities
Comment: Maria Suojanen

Saturday 19.8. at 9.00-

chaired by Peter Kraus

Elina Kestilä: Institutional and Socio-Economic Determinants of the Radical Right-Wing Vote. Subnational Approach to the Electoral Fortunes of the Norwegian Progress Party
Comment: Inigo Mielgo Salcedo

Maria Suojanen: Minority Party Success in Heterogeneous European Countries
Comment: Peter A. Kraus

Pia Nyman-Kurkiala: De egna och de andra. Finlandssvenska jakobstadsungdomars upplevelser av kontakten med finskspråkiga ungdomar.
Comment: Maria Kreander

Johanna Söderholm: Estlands svenskar: en nationell minoritet - på nytt?

Organisationssociologi / Organizational sociology

Organizations are central institutions in modern societies and an important field of study in Sociology. The workshop on Organizational Sociology welcomes papers discussing different aspect of organizational development in organizations.

Among the themes that could be discussed in the workshop are: hierarchical versus decentralised organizations; Internet, network and organizations; decision making in organizations, actors in organizations; transnational organizations, governance and organizations and many other subjects.

Both papers formulated around empirical and theoretical questions are welcome.

Fredag 18.8. 15.30 - 18.35

15.30 - 15.50 Introduction 

15.50 – 16.10 Christine Roman/Agneta Hugemark: Diversity and Divisions in the Disability Movement. Disability, gender and social justice

16.10 - 16.30 Minna Janhonen: Social construction of justice in work organisations

16.30 - 16.45 Break 

16.45 - 17.05 Stefan Karlsson: Att känna likhet gör stor skillnad. Et teoretisk studie av emotioner och homosocialitet

17.05 - 1725 Yvonne Due Billing: The will to power?

17.25 - 17.45 Örjan Widegren: Power and influence in a dissolving society

17.45 - 17.55 Break 

17.55 - 18.15 Christer Theandersson: Hur upplever första linjens chefer palliativ vård i livets slut?

18.15 - 18.35 Juha Klemelä: The relationship between municipal delegates and officials seen from a symbolic interactionist viewpoint

Lördag 19.8. 09.00 - 12.05

09.00 - 09.20 Nina Amble/Elisabeth Gjerberg: Refleksjon som arbeidspraksis

09.20 - 09.40 Bertil Rolandsson: Förtroende och säkerhet i transportföretag

09.40 - 10.00 Jan-Erik Johanson: Team network performance

10.00 - 10.15 Break 

10.15 - 10.35 Antti Tietäväinen: OECD, nation states and civil society: changing governmentality practices on international investment policy

10.35 - 10.55 Carsten Strøby Jensen: Arbejdsgiverorganisering og kollektiv handlen

10.55 - 11.15 Tuomas Ylä-Anttila: Policy Networks - An Organizational Form for Reflexive Policy Discourse on Global Governance?

11.15 - 11.25 Break

11.25 - 11.45 Paulina Polak: New Forms of Corruption in Contemporary World: Corruption Industry

11.45 - 12.05  Snorri Arnason: Business or pressure? Corporate Crime and the Icelandic Business Condition

Söndag 20.8. 10.30 - 11.30

10.30 - 10.50 Kaja Gadowska: Law in Action. Political Patronage in Public Administration in Poland in the Light of Civil Service Act

10.50 - 11.10 Daniel Lindvall: Informal networks in the stateless society ­ The Serbian case

Polisforskning / Police sociology
Politisosiologien dekker studier av politiet og deres virksomhet. Politisosiologien tar for seg en rekke ulike temaer som: studier av politikulturer, politirollen, politimetoder, hva politiet gjør, styringen av politiet, politi og sosial kontroll / overvåkning, politiets møte med publikum, effektene av hva politiet gjør og organiseringen av politiet for å nevne noen.
Arbeidsgruppen retter seg ikke utelukkende til forskere, men også til analytikere og andre som arbeider med evalueringer, analyser eller annen forskningsbasert kunnskapsproduksjon om politiet og deres virksomhet.

Herved inviteres alle som arbeider med samfunnsvitenskapelige forskningsmetoder innen feltet til å bidra med innlegg. Ledere for gruppen er førsteamanuensis Paul Larsson ved Politihøgskolen i Oslo og universitetslektor Rolf Granér ved Polisutbildningen i Växjö / Universitetet i Karlstad.
Larsson treffes på paul.larsson@phs.no eller telefon 0047 99 20 77 15 / 0047 23 19 98 76.
Granér treffes på rolf.graner@vxu.se

Fredag 18.8. 15.30 - 18.30

Alvesalo, A. No-one's property? The police investigation of occupational safety crimes

Jakobsson Öhrn, H. Polisiar handling mellan det institutionella och det individuella

Egharevba, S. Rhetoric in race relations in Finland: Rebuilding trust among immigrant minority of the police in Turku

Noponen, T. Preventing violence: co-operation between the police and health authorities

Lördag 19.8. 09.00 - 12.00

Korsell & Wallström Otillåten påverkan mot poliser

Andersson, S. Graden av mellanmanlig homosocialitet som ett begränsande villkor

Larsson & Thomassen Hvem er politistudentene?

Roivainen, O. The implementation of the new Public Order Act by the Finnish police

Levä, I. 27 th of June, 1981: A Plateau of Cultural Transformation in Helsinki Central Prison

Söndag 20.8. 09.00 - 12.00

Diskusjon politiforskningens fremtid in Norden

Det nordiske politiforskningsnettverket

Religionssociologi / Sociology of religion
Koordinator: Andreas Häger, andreas.hager@abo.fi

Religionssociologi, det sociologiska studiet av religionens plats i det moderna samhället, är ett klassiskt delområde, som var centralt för både Durkheim och Weber. Delområdet kan också sägas ha en speciell plats inom sociologin, eftersom det studerar ett fenomen vars minskade betydelse enligt många är ett grundläggande karaktärsdrag hos moderniteten.
Arbetsgruppen för religionssociologi vill bjuda in presentationer som rör sociologiskt studium av religion; såväl empiriska som teoretiska papers och papers i olika skeden av forskningsprocessen och forskarkarriären är välkomna.
Religionssociologin har trots sin klassiska status en relativt marginaliserad plats vid de nordiska sociologiska institutionerna och bedrivs i hög grad vid andra fakulteter och institutioner. Särskilt vill vi bjuda in papers som stimulerar en diskussion av den nordiska religionssociologins relation till de sociologiska, teologiska och religionsvetenskapliga disciplinerna och till den forskning som utförs inom olika religiösa organisationer.

Fredag 18.8. 15.30-18.30

Lise Kanckos: Att tolka och benämna barnlöshet – assisterad befruktning i nordisk politik

Winter, Torsten m fl: Positive attitudes about sexual abstinence among young people – a longitudinal study , PRESENTATION CANCELLED.

Ahlin, Lars: Sociala erfarenheters betydelse för religiositeten

Timofeeva, Ekaterina: Looking for social cohesion in the discourse of newspaper articles: Santa Lucia's holiday in Syracuse

Lehtinen, Sanna: The role of the Finnish Lutheran church in the European social fund projects during 1995-2006

Chair: Andreas Häger

Sociologins moderna historia i Norden / History of modern sociology in the Nordic countries
Koordinator: Kirsti Suolinna, kirsti.suolinna@abo.fi
Bikoordinator: Ralf Kauranen, ralf.kauranen@abo.fi

Den moderna sociologin etablerades i Norden efter andra världskriget. Idag förefaller det finnas ett växande intresse för den nordiska sociologins historia. Vi inbjuder till denna arbetsgrupp föredrag som ur olika perspektiv närmar sig den moderna sociologins historia i Norden, men utesluter inte heller betraktelser av sociologin i Baltikum. Vi välkomnar inte endast sociologisk diskussion, utan även idé- eller vetenskapshistoriska samt vetenskapsteoretiska presentationer. Presentationernas fokus kan vara på exempelvis paradigmskiften i den nordiska sociologin, och behöver nödvändigtvis inte begränsas till den efterkrigstida sociologin. Föredragen kan också ta fasta på dagsaktuella trender. Andra tänkbara perspektiv kan handla om personliga forskarbiografier i relation till sociologins historia. Ytterligare välkomnas diskussioner om en nordisk sociologis eventuella särart i ett internationellt perspektiv och betraktelser av nationella och lokala sociologiska traditioner, både som fallstudier och i jämförande perspektiv. Både teori- och metodhistoriska betraktelser välkomnas. Ovan angivna teman är förslag, andra teman och perspektiv är också ytterst välkomna.

Fredag 18.8. 15.30 - 18.30

Magdalenic, S. Recent Swedish research on the history of sociology and the social sciences: an overview

Sundback, S. Språk och politik i Westermarck-society till mitten av 1970-talet

Break

Larsson, A. Textbooks, syllabi and disciplinary formation

Alastalo, M. History of Survey Methods in Finnish Sociology

Lördag 19.8. 09.00 - 12.00

Roos, J P: A sociological power conflict. The submerged debate between Westermarck and Durkheim

Wisselgren, P. Regulating the Science-Policy Boundary: The Myrdals and the Swedish Tradition of Governmental Commissions

Suolinna, K. och Lagerspetz, O. Westermarck samfundet och etableringen av modern sociologi i Finland

Söndag 20.8. 09.00 - 12.00

Kalleberg, R. Norwegian sociologists as public intellectuals , PRESENTATION CANCELLED.

Rosenberg, T. I otakt med tiden – några blad ur en tänkt biografi över Knut Pipping

Break

Rosenlew, A. Professor Knut Pipping som sociolog och fältforskare i Tanzania 1970-1972

Mansikka, T. och Suolinna, K. Arne Runeberg, den sista westermarckianen

Sociologisk teori / Sociological theory
Koordinator: Mikael Carleheden, mikael.carleheden@sam.oru.se

I arbetsgruppen i sociologisk teori diskuteras samhällsvetenskaplig teoriutveckling, teorikritik, kritisk teori, samt vetenskapsteoretiska diskussioner om teorikonstruktionens metodologi, förhållandet mellan teori och empiri och mellan samhällskritik och vetenskap. Uppsatser som behandlar konferensens allmänna tema om ”samhällets upplösning” passar väl in i denna arbetsgrupps diskussioner.

Fredag 18.8. 15.30-18.30

Antti Gronow: Margret Archer and the problem of the under-socialized self
Discussant : Ragnvald Kalleberg

Olli Pyyhtinen: Society as societalization: the eventualization of society in the sociology of Georg Simmel
Discussant : Jessica Mjöberg

Gorm Harste: The will to exclusion – From Warfare to workfare
Discussant : Elina Pekkarinen

Fuat Deniz: Individualiseringsprocesser – mekanismer och följder
Discussant : Sverre Wide

Lördag 19.8. 09.00-12.00

Ragnvald Kalleberg: On inescapable norms of science
Discussant : Mikael Carleheden

Elina Pekkarinen and Maria Tapola-Haapala: Critical realism and social work research
Discussant : Antti Gronow

Sverre Wide: Social purity: some sociological and logical limits
Discussant : Maria Tapola-Haapala

Sven Eliaeson: Gunnar Myrdal as a Weberian intellectual
Discussant : Gorm Harste

Mojtaba Sedaghati Fard: Criticism and study of postmodernism and its effects on philosophical and scientific knowledge
Presentation of the paper by the author instead of discussant

Söndag 20.8. 09.00-12.00

Helen Lindberg: The dangerous liaison between radical conservatism and radical conservatism and radical democracy
Discussant : Carsten Bagge Lautsen

Carsten Bagge Lautsen: The Abu Ghraib pictures
Discussant : Helen Lindberg

Jessica Mjöberg: Distant closeness? Intimacy in an alienated society
Discussant : Marja Andersson and Hannu Ruonavaara

Marja Andersson and Hannu Ruonavaara: Theorising the regulations of youth culture: From moral panic to moral regulation?
Discussant : Fuat Deniz

Mikael Carleheden: The transformation of our conduct of life: One aspect of the three epochs of Western modernity
Discussant : Olli Pyyhtinen

Tillit, medborgerligt engagemang och socialt kapital / Trust, civic engagement and social capital
Koordinator: antti.kouvo@utu.fi

Social capital is one of the most popular concepts in the social sciences nowadays. As a type of capital it is believed to be a resource promoting different types of benefits at both societal and individual levels. The elements social capital are often defined and measured as trust, norms of reciprocity and networks. However, while many have examined the possible consequences of social capital, there is no agreement over its sources. One of the most traditional and still most puzzling issues is the role of civic engagement in the creation of interpersonal and institutional trust-relationships. The traditional idea emphasizes the importance of voluntary associations when generating social trust, but has been challenged by alternative explanations.
The objective of the workshop is to provide the researchers with useful ideas and comments concerning the study of social capital, trust and civic engagement. Presentations can be both empirically or theoretically oriented. Especially critical views on the conceptualisation and measurement issues are welcomed. The language of the workshop is English.

Fredag 18.8. 15.30 - 18.30

Erkko Anttila: Social Capital and Local Community Networks from a
Historical Perspective: The Case of Working-Class Suburbs of Helsinki

Carina Asplund, Lars-Erik Wolvén & Marie-Louise von Bergmann-Winberg:
Det startade med en samlingslokal

Sara Nyhlen & Marie-Louise von Bergmann-Winberg: Människan som
tillväxtfaktor - Att ta saken i egna händer

Coffee break

Takahashi, Erika: Local culture and social system as explanatory factors
for health and well-being; from welfare practices among elderly in a
bilingual setting in Finland

Söderberg, Patrik & Knuts, Tomas: Dimensions of civic engagement - A
study of political interest and organizational participation among young
people


Lördag 19.8. 09.00-12.00

Riitta Kyllönen: Trust In Question. Lessons From the Field

Antti Kouvo: Multidimensional Social Capital and Multiple Levels – A
Comparative Study of European Nations

Anders Barstad: Social integration in late modern society. The case of
Norway 1973-2002.

Coffee break

Thomas P. Boje: Civil society, civic participation and volunteering –
what is the relationship?

Katri Vallaste: Representations of EU-Criticism in Daily Newspapers

Mäkinen, Jarmo: How Culture Gives Symbolic Power? Fields and Networks in
the System of the Regional Funds

Utbildningssociologi / Educational sociology
Coordinator: Sakari Ahola, sakari.ahola@utu.fi

Concepts like education society or mass education indicate that society, especially the State, and the education system entertain quite special relationships. Nations have been built and are still constructed by developing national educational systems notwithstanding globalisation which has transformed our traditional way of thinking on nation states by giving priority to trans-national concerns and “landless” economic forces and interests.

In the information society, or “the Europe of knowledge”, the qualification function of education has been given priority. The world of work is changing meaning e.g. the blurring of all boundaries. Free mobility of ideas, goods and work force is the trans-national policy objective of the EU. Education as human capital, however, has turned out to be human risk capital. Yet, still more education is called for. On the other hand, in a multi-cultural society, with emphasis on the “European dimension”, the socialisation function is gaining new importance too. On the whole, the education institution is live and kicking.

Regarding our theme – dissolution of society – the education-society nexus can be approached from different angles. The working group on sociology of education invites fresh approaches, whether polemic, theoretical, or research based, on the societal connections of education in the era of dis-solutions.

Fredag 18.8. 15.30 - 18.00

15.30 – 16.00 Okkolin, Mari-Anne: Gender sensitive and/or responsive educational policies

16.00 – 16.30 Bunar, Nihad: Freedom of choice in Swedish compulsory schooling

16.30 – 17.00 Kivelä, Suvi: Young people outside education

17.00 – 17.30 Agabrian, Mircea: The Increased Involvement of Parents in School Activities and in Their Children's Education: Options, Attitudes and Opinions

17.30 – 18.00 Lampinen, Marjaana & Alasuutari Pertti: The Curse of Success: The impact of the OECD PISA Study on the discourses of teachers' profession in Finland

Lördag 19.8. 10.00 - 11.30

10.00 – 10.30 Koskinen, Katariina: Regional Differences in European Higher Education and Graduate Labour Market Success

10.30 – 11.00 Yndigegn, Carsten: The choice of higher education among young people in the national periphery: Split between local network and future possibilities in the centres

11.00 – 11.30 Mäkinen, Mirka: Narratives of university students' experiences of changing major subject

Yrken och professioner / Occupations and professions
Koordinator: Sirpa Wrede, sirpa.wrede@helsinki.fi
Bikoordinator: Stina Johansson, stina.johansson@socw.umu.se

Till den här arbetsgruppen inbjuds bidrag inom arbets- och
professionssociologin som utforskar yrken och yrkesgrupper som sociala
fenomen. Möjliga teman är sådana som belyser professionalisering och
professionalism, arbetsfördelningens dynamik, förändringar i
yrkesidentiteter och professionella villkor. Särskilt välkomna är sådana
papers som relaterar förändringarna i yrkesgrupper och professioner till
förändringarna i samhällskontexten, t.ex. i välfärdspolitiken och
utbildningspolitiken.

Fredag 18.8. 15.30-18.30

Panel I 15.30-17.00
Break
Panel II 17.15-18.30

Lördag 19.8. 09.00-12.00

Panel III 9.00-10.15
Break
Panel IV 10.30-12.00

Söndag 20.8. 09.00-12.00

Panel V 9.00-10.15
Break
Panel VI 10.30-12.15Friday, 18.8.2006

15.30-17.00: Panel I
Professional values, identity and professionalism considered

Opening of the workgroup

Haapakorpi, A: The interrelationship between trust and power in professional work

Caspersen, J: Professional Motivation and Professional Socialisation- Teachers and Nurses Compared.

Dahlen, M: Job values, gender and profession: a comparative study of the transition from school to work

Ask, T.: Konstruksjoner av sosialt arbeid som fag og som yrke - en studie av sosionomstudenters formidlinger fra praksis.

17.15-18.30: Panel II
Approaches to professional knowledge

Jauho, M.: Foucault and the professions ­ an uneasy marriage? Using Foucault in the study of health care and medical professions.

Okkonen, J: V2C-apparatus ­ a professional community of practice for knowledge transfer

Saario, S: The role of governing techniques in the practices of mental health professionals

Smeby, JS: Epistemic cultures among beginning professionals

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09.00-10.15: Panel III
Under preasure? Changing care occupations and care worker orientations

Kröger, T. The everyday of care work in the Nordic countries: findings from a survey study.

Høst, H.: De underordnede yrkene i pleie- og omsorgssektoren under press.

Dybbroe, B.: A crisis of learning and welfare in care.

Olsen, O.J. : The antinomies of the care worker – work, labour and professional identity.

10.30-12.00: Panel IV
The making and remaking of jurisdictional boundaries

Johansson, S.: Changes in the educational system.

Jessen, J.: Profesjonell autonomi eller byråkratisk styring? Om handlingsfrihet og skjønnsutøvelse i forvaltningen av velferd.

Liljegren, A. : Vi och dom andra: Om mikropolitiska konstruktioner i en professionell byråkrati

Korp, P: Hälsofrämjande arbete: utbildning och professionalisering.

Pyykkö, R.: The reform of Parish Diaconal Work - redefining the Divisoin of Labor of the Church´s Occupations.


Söndag, 20.8.2006

9.00-10.15: Panel V
The social shaping of occupations and work cultures

Abrahamsen, B.: Medisin eller sykepleie? Betydningen av jobbverdier og livsstilspreferanser for yrkesvalg.

Lehtonen, J: Non-heterosexual people´s career choices in gender-segregated work culture.

Wreder, M.: Women, Management and Gender ­ How Female Managers Deal with Power.

Magdalenić, S.: Male nurses career advancement: does ethnicity matter?

10.30-12.00: Panel VI
Challenges to work cultures and professional identities

Perälä, R.: How to sell controversial service to municipality? Stigma management as a professional strategy of the workers of the needle exchange services for intravenous drug users.

Leppo, A.: Clients or patients? The construction of everyday work with substance misusing pregnant clients at a Finnish maternity clinic.

Fredriksson-Bass, J: The Challenge of Wired Patients and .com Health: The Impact of the Internet on Doctors’ Professional Status and Autonomy.

Tapola-Haapala, M.: Social work, critical realism and emancipation.

Workgroup summary