Browsing by Subject "nettietnografia"

This study explores the narrative world of cross-generations through education and related beliefs through online discussion materials. The thesis was based on a topical public debate on the development of educational inequalities. Earlier social science-focused educational research has shown that both education and socio-economic status tend to move down from one generation to the next. The study seeks to address, through narratives, educational inequalities that are culturally and socially constructed. The research material used was education and career narratives on open online discussion forums that recalled discussions and interaction in childhood families. The study was conducted as a qualitative study. The method of multidisciplinary research, based on the educational framework, was the narrative and the netnographic approach. The research approach was based on social constructionism, where the construction of social reality takes place through the use of language. The main findings were about cross-generational cultural, social and economic capital. Findings revealed inherited, story-based beliefs, partly gender-based distribution of tasks and exercising of power. On the basis of the results, the stories distributed within the families were renewing the social positions of the individuals and maintaining social inequalities. As a subject of educational sociology, educational cross-generation can be viewed as a cultural phenomenon of public debate. The study is also an overview of the time of educational equality in Finland at the turn of the 2010-2020s.