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  • Perheen ytimeen : perhediskurssit Helsingin Sanomien mielipidekirjoitusten ydinperhepuheessa vuosina 1990–1994 ja 2010–2014 
    Suonio, Saida (2015)
    Into Family examines how family is constructed in opinion pieces of Finland's most popular newspaper Helsingin Sanomat in 1990–1994 and 2010–2014. The research aim was to study what kind of discourses are constructed in the opinion pieces referring to nuclear family. The aim was also to compare discourses between years 1990–1994 and 2010–2014. The research method was critical discourse analysis which focuses on how societal power relations and inequality are constructed and reinforced through the use of language. The research questions are: how family is constructed in the opinion texts in Helsingin Sanomat and how discourses in 1990–1994 differ compared to 2010–2014 concerning equality? Studies show that heteronormative nuclear family is usually seen as "normal" family. In the beginning of this study, I assumed that discourses of nuclear family would reveal intersecting ideas of family. Therefore the context of the study was put up with discourses concerning nuclear family. The data was collected from the electronic archive of Helsingin Sanomat using all different forms of the keyword nuclear family. The analysis was made using critical discourse analysis to find out how societal power relations were constructed concerning family. Heteronormative nuclear family was constructed as self-evident family. It held hegemonic position in the discourses of both datas. Even so, family discourses, that had different ideologies about values clashed with each other. These differences constructed with conservative and liberal values. The comparative study showed that discourses of family had transformed to be more polyphonic and equal. Anyhow family discourses constructs and reinforces inequality by treating heteronormative nuclear family as normal and ideal. In any case family discourses have transformed to be more equal.
  • Ydinperheiden vanhempien ajatuksia arjesta ja vanhemmuudesta 
    Pöllänen, Ilona (2018)
    Goals. The goal of this thesis was to describe nuclear family parents’ thoughts of parenthood and the diversity of everyday life. According to the results of The Family Barometer 2017 by The Family Federation of Finland young childless adults that are postponing their parenthood see the everyday life of a family with children busy and troublesome. They also see families with children as so called Prisma family which are similar to each other. Prisma family is a fairly new concept of a stereotypical family whose parents seem to be busy and nervous and their children furious. The Family Barometer doesn’t disclose the parents’ points of view on family life, so this thesis aims at providing information of the everyday life of a family with children, and at raising the diversity of daily life of the nuclear family i.e. heterosexual parents and their common children. The generalization of Prisma family doesn’t fit in this diversity. The goal was to stir up ideas of the diversity of daily life and diminish its emphasis on the extremes. Methods. This thesis is placed between qualitative and quantitative research. The data for the thesis was collected with a questionnaire that included open ended questions. The data based on five nuclear family parents that were chosen by discretionary sample and was analyzed by using content analysis. Eventually the qualitative features were emphasized in the execution and demarcation of this thesis because the goal was to describe nuclear family parents’ own thoughts without a need of generalization. Results and conclusions. The parents of nuclear families experienced their everyday life positively. It seems that the support and compromising between the parents are connected to better experience of their own time and opportunity to have hobbies. Four of the couples saw that their time together had diminished. In turn three of the couples found that their children have strengthened the bond between the parents. Combining work and study with everyday life of a family with children worked out well among the families in the research. All in all, the families participating in the thesis were actually examples of Prisma family, whose lives are busy but thanks to their flexibility they didn’t experience the rush only negatively but could control it.

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