Journal articles in English by Jenni Simonen
Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 2017
Aims: This study analyzes how Finnish and Norwegian teenagers and parents of teenagers perceive t... more Aims: This study analyzes how Finnish and Norwegian teenagers and parents of teenagers perceive the appropriateness, desirability or harmfulness of different drinking situations. The focus is on whether teenagers and parents perceive the situations similarly or differently.
Methods: Our data consist of focus group interviews from Finland and Norway with teenagers aged 14–17 years (n=8 groups, n=44 participants), and parents (n=8 groups, n=38). Three pictures portraying different drinking situations were presented to the participants, who were asked to describe (1) what kind of situation the picture depicts, (2) whether the way of drinking in the picture was acceptable or not, and (3) whether they identified with the situation or not.
Findings: Our analysis showed that teenagers and parents defined the situations similarly and applied rather similar criteria when assessing the appropriateness of drinking. The most important criteria related to the amount and the way of drinking, and whether or not children were present in the situation. Regarding the identification with the situations, teenagers seemed to have somewhat stricter attitudes than adults.
Conclusions: Overall, our analysis suggests that the alcohol worlds of parents and teenagers resembled each other supporting the notion that the generational gap between parents and teenagers is diminishing.
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Addiction Research & Theory, 2014
ABSTRACT This article discusses femininities of drinking in Finland and in Sweden. It compares ho... more ABSTRACT This article discusses femininities of drinking in Finland and in Sweden. It compares how Finnish and Swedish women define accepted and desired drinking-related femininity. It also asks how femininity related to drinking is constructed and to what traits it is associated with. According to the general assumption increased intoxication oriented drinking among women means that drinking habits and behavior between women and men have become more similar. We rather suggest that women have not only adopted intoxication oriented drinking but they connect it to their feminine identity by shaping it according to their own needs and actions. The analysis is made by using focus group interviews from Finland and Sweden from four different age groups (20 years, 25–30 years, 35–40 years and 50–60 years) and from two educational levels. The data has been analyzed by examining how Finnish and Swedish women construct femininities of drinking while interpreting the pictures of drinking situations. The analysis shows that there is variety of femininities of drinking. Age seems to be an important factor in the construction of femininities; younger and older Finnish and Swedish women relate different traits to drinking-related femininity. It seems that the composition of drinking related gender identity has broadened from traditional hegemonic feminine values to versatility. This relates to the expansion of drinking related actions and the strengthening of drinking related agency among women. Based on these findings, younger generations seem to have a wider variety of drinking related repertoires and ways to interpret femininity than older generations. Read More: http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/16066359.2013.779676
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Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 2000
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Media, Culture & Society, Jun 30, 2015
This study analyses alcohol-related articles appearing in Finnish women’s magazines from the 1960... more This study analyses alcohol-related articles appearing in Finnish women’s magazines from the 1960s to the present day. Women’s magazines are approached as institutions constituting feminine publicities that address issues of interest as well as problems and contradictions in women’s everyday life. Influenced by Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of field, habitus and capital, data analysis focuses around three main questions: (1) in what kinds of fields do the texts locate drinking; (2) what kinds of drinking-related subject positions do the texts offer their readers; and (3) what kinds of economic, social, cultural, physical, emotional and symbolic resources do they discursively construct and attach to these subject positions? The analysis shows that throughout the study period, women’s magazines’ alcohol-related texts position women readers into the realm of home and family and construct capitals that reinforce a ‘caring ethics’. On the other hand, from the 1990s onwards, alcohol-related texts in women’s magazines also begin to assign women to consumer positions of hedonistic consumer, rational consumer, status-oriented consumer, expert consumer and the consumer who is keen to break away from formality and construct capitals for these positions as well as wage through them a symbolic struggle over which lifestyles are ‘in’ and which are ‘out’.
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Substance Use & Misuse, 2015
Women’s magazines can be seen as a genre that form
feminized public spaces where everyday life co... more Women’s magazines can be seen as a genre that form
feminized public spaces where everyday life contra-
dictions of women’s life are negotiated. The study ex-
amines the ways in which Finnish women’s magazines
have dealt with alcohol problems. The data covers six
primary sampling years: 1968, 1976, 1984, 1992, 2000
and 2008. The data is analyzed by drawing on the con-
cept of ‘moral regulation’. The analysis shows that a
family-centered framing dominated the constructions
of alcohol problem: fathers’ and husbands’ alcoholism
appeared as a main object of regulation in all decades
under study, while mothers’ and wives’ alcoholism was
much less prevalent.
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... Vielä selkeämmin se tulee esiin Sakarin tota-lisoivassa ilmauksessa kaikki hyppii katossa. ... more ... Vielä selkeämmin se tulee esiin Sakarin tota-lisoivassa ilmauksessa kaikki hyppii katossa. ... Keskustelun edetessä haastateltavat kuitenkin intoutuvat kertomaan myös humalapäisestä hulluttelustaan ja örveltämisestään: Saara: Mekin oltiin (
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Johdanto: Alkoholinkäyttö on suomalaisessa kulttuurissa mielletty keskeiseksi maskuliiniseksi mää... more Johdanto: Alkoholinkäyttö on suomalaisessa kulttuurissa mielletty keskeiseksi maskuliiniseksi määreeksi. Vielä ennen 1960-lukua juominen kuuluikin lähinnä miesten maailmaan. Sittemmin alkoholikulttuuri on avautunut myös naisille. Naisten alkoholinkäytön suurten muutosten, juomisen kasvun ja humalajuomisen yleistymisen rinnalla miesten juomista on alkoholin kulutuksen muutoksista huolimatta käsitelty usein yksiulotteisena ja luonteeltaan lähes muuttumattomana, ajasta toiseen itseään uusintavana (ks. esim. Partanen 1992). Suomalainen yhteiskunta on lähihistoriassa käynyt läpi voimakkaita elinolo- ja rakennemuutoksia, joilla on naisten elämän ohella ollut vaikutuksensa kuitenkin myös miesten elämän järjestymiseen sekä kokemukseen maskuliinisuudesta ja juomisen sukupuolijaosta (vrt. Ti-gerstedt & Törrönen 2005; Sulkunen 1980). Kä-sillä olevassa artikkelissa lähdetään selvittämään, mitä nämä muutokset tarkoittavat eri sukupolvia edustavien miesten juomisen ja itseymmärryksen kannalta. Ar...
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Artikkelissa tarkastellaan kuinka eri-ikäisten ja koulutustaustaisten naisten ja miesten ryh-miss... more Artikkelissa tarkastellaan kuinka eri-ikäisten ja koulutustaustaisten naisten ja miesten ryh-missä puhutaan humalasta ja minkälaista alkoholinkäytön sukupuolikuvaa puheessa tuote-taan. Aineistona käytetään haastatteluaineistoa, joka sisältää 16 nais-ja miesryhmissä tehtyä ryhmähaastattelua. Analyysi osoittaa, että naisilla humalapuhe eroaa eri sukupolvien välillä siten, että nuorten ja vanhojen naisten suhde humalaan ja juomisen kontrolliin muodostuu puheessa erilaisiksi. Vanhat naiset toistavat puheessaan juomisen perinteisiä feminiinisiä kon-ventioita kun taas nuoret naiset rikkovat niitä. Miehillä humalapuhe näyttää eri ikäryhmien välillä naisten humalapuhetta yhtenäisemmältä. Suuri osa miehistä tuottaa juomisessa masku-liinisuutta keskustelemalla humalasta avoimesti ja häpeilemättä. Nuoret korkeasti koulutetut miehet puhuvat humalasta kuitenkin eri tavalla karttamalla humalajuomista ja korostamalla itsekontrollia. Näin analyysi kertoo naisten ja miesten humalapuheen ja juomisen ...
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Helsingin yliopisto - sosiologian laitos Tutkielma käsittelee nuorten aikuisten alkoholinkäyttöön... more Helsingin yliopisto - sosiologian laitos Tutkielma käsittelee nuorten aikuisten alkoholinkäyttöön liittyvää sosiaalisuutta. Usein juomiseen liittyvää sosiaalisuutta on jäsennetty periaatteella, jossa ilmiötä selitetään jonkin yksittäisen nimittäjän (kuten esimerkiksi sukupuolen tai sosiaaliluokan) nojalla. Lisäksi näkemys sosiaalisuudesta on muodostunut yksipuoliseksi. Tässä tutkielmassa aihetta lähestytään toisesta näkökulmasta. Kiinnostuksen kohteena on juomiseen liittyvän sosiaalisen kanssakäymisen moninaisuus ja vaihtelu. Koska juominen käsitetään nuorten keskuudessa yhteisösidonnaisena, jossa nuorten omilla vertaisryhmillä on merkittävä osa, sosiaalisuutta tutkitaan tarkastelemalla niitä tapoja, joilla yksilöt kiinnittyvät toisiinsa ja muodostavat yhteisön. Näin tutkielma keskittyy selvittämään, millaisiin erilaisiin yhdessäolon ja yhteenliittymisen muotoihin nuorten juominen liittyy. Tutkielman teoreettiset lähtökohdat ovat sosiaalisuutta käsittelevissä sosiologisissa teoriois...
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Journal articles in English by Jenni Simonen
Methods: Our data consist of focus group interviews from Finland and Norway with teenagers aged 14–17 years (n=8 groups, n=44 participants), and parents (n=8 groups, n=38). Three pictures portraying different drinking situations were presented to the participants, who were asked to describe (1) what kind of situation the picture depicts, (2) whether the way of drinking in the picture was acceptable or not, and (3) whether they identified with the situation or not.
Findings: Our analysis showed that teenagers and parents defined the situations similarly and applied rather similar criteria when assessing the appropriateness of drinking. The most important criteria related to the amount and the way of drinking, and whether or not children were present in the situation. Regarding the identification with the situations, teenagers seemed to have somewhat stricter attitudes than adults.
Conclusions: Overall, our analysis suggests that the alcohol worlds of parents and teenagers resembled each other supporting the notion that the generational gap between parents and teenagers is diminishing.
feminized public spaces where everyday life contra-
dictions of women’s life are negotiated. The study ex-
amines the ways in which Finnish women’s magazines
have dealt with alcohol problems. The data covers six
primary sampling years: 1968, 1976, 1984, 1992, 2000
and 2008. The data is analyzed by drawing on the con-
cept of ‘moral regulation’. The analysis shows that a
family-centered framing dominated the constructions
of alcohol problem: fathers’ and husbands’ alcoholism
appeared as a main object of regulation in all decades
under study, while mothers’ and wives’ alcoholism was
much less prevalent.
Papers by Jenni Simonen
journal articles in Finnish by Jenni Simonen
Methods: Our data consist of focus group interviews from Finland and Norway with teenagers aged 14–17 years (n=8 groups, n=44 participants), and parents (n=8 groups, n=38). Three pictures portraying different drinking situations were presented to the participants, who were asked to describe (1) what kind of situation the picture depicts, (2) whether the way of drinking in the picture was acceptable or not, and (3) whether they identified with the situation or not.
Findings: Our analysis showed that teenagers and parents defined the situations similarly and applied rather similar criteria when assessing the appropriateness of drinking. The most important criteria related to the amount and the way of drinking, and whether or not children were present in the situation. Regarding the identification with the situations, teenagers seemed to have somewhat stricter attitudes than adults.
Conclusions: Overall, our analysis suggests that the alcohol worlds of parents and teenagers resembled each other supporting the notion that the generational gap between parents and teenagers is diminishing.
feminized public spaces where everyday life contra-
dictions of women’s life are negotiated. The study ex-
amines the ways in which Finnish women’s magazines
have dealt with alcohol problems. The data covers six
primary sampling years: 1968, 1976, 1984, 1992, 2000
and 2008. The data is analyzed by drawing on the con-
cept of ‘moral regulation’. The analysis shows that a
family-centered framing dominated the constructions
of alcohol problem: fathers’ and husbands’ alcoholism
appeared as a main object of regulation in all decades
under study, while mothers’ and wives’ alcoholism was
much less prevalent.