CEACG

Two studies by CEACG researchers were released recently. Anna Alanko with Sami Outinen authored a study on the Finnish activation policies published in the latest issue of European Societes. Continue reading “New studies by CEACG researchers”

Anu Katainen serves as PI in a new CEACG-project “Affecting adolescents’ images of alcohol use: An evaluation of the online alcohol marketing strategies and the impact of the new Finnish Alcohol Act“. It is part of the Academy of Finland’s venture “Forging ahead with research , that aims at concretizing research of previous Academy-funded projects Continue reading “Academy funding news”

The media discussion surrounding digital gaming tends to be risk- and problem-oriented. For example, computer video gaming has been depicted as causing mental health problems and reducing social competence and cognition. Such public concerns are often heavily gendered by emphasizing how young boys lose out due to their gaming habits. Continue reading “Masculinity among online gamers”

Over 100 colleagues, students and friends attended Pekka Sulkunen’s farewell seminar and reception on 30 August to celebrate Pekka’s long and successful career in academia. The Festschrift in his honour is now also available online.

Matilda Hellman is taking over the lead of the CEACG-group starting August. Hellman has served as the group’s vice director since its formation in the beginning of 2011. Continue reading “The CEACG has a new director”

A farewell lecture and seminar for Pekka Sulkunen at his departure for retirement from the office of Professor of Sociology at the University of Helsinki will take place on the 30th of August 2016. The event will be held at 14-16 pm in the SSKH Festsal, Snellmaninkatu 12, 1st floor. Continue reading “Sulkunen’s farewell seminar”

Pekka Sulkunen, Professor of sociology at the University of Helsinki since 2000, is retiring from his post in July 2016. In honour of his remarkable work as a professor and researcher, his friends, colleagues and former students have edited a festschrift which pieces together personal recollections, methodological observations and theoretical insights from different parts Pekka’s long and diverse research career. Continue reading “Beyond the Sociological Imagination”

Veera Kankainen, M.Soc.Sci., is the latest addition to the CEACG-team. Kankainen is funded by the Finnish Foundation for Alcohol Studies for the doctoral dissertation ‘The Finn Always Wins? A Qualitative Analysis of the Public Good That Gambling Policies Create’. Kankainen will inquire into the Finnish gambling policies from the perspective of welfare policy and civil society.
Continue reading “Latest addition to the CEACG-team”

The yearly Finnish Sociologists’ days — an important ‘get together’ for sociologists – is held in Jyväskylä this week.
While CEACG-researchers are typically divided between many different workshops, one that they will most certainly be present in is the one concerned with culture and consumption. Since 2014 Riie Heikkilä and Anu Katainen have arranged the Culture and Consumption workshops.

Continue reading “Culture, consumption and gambling at the Sosiologipäivät”

Are the offline and the online two competing social worlds, which need to be balanced? How does great online engagement affect close offline relationships with family and friends?

A new study by Hellman, Karjalainen and Majamäki (2016), published in the journal New Media and Society inquires into how persons in a close relationship with a gamer of Massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG) perceive relationship problems caused by the gaming hobby. The study points to the timeliness in devoting attention to the premises under which intimacy and commitment are negotiated in offline and online relationship constellations.

Continue reading “Harm to relationships caused by excessive online gaming”