Subject, Technology and Social Practice (STP)

Affiliated Research areas

• Social policies, welfare, work and employment

Scientific Areas

• Sociology
• Technology studies

Keywords

• Health practices, gender relationships, and sexualized coercion
• Professional practices with children
• Technological practices, learning, and human agency
• Work practices, commcenteries, and conflictual cooperation

Summary

The research group focuses on analysing the experiences and activities across various contexts of human subjects in concrete problems of their everyday life. Today technologies play a vital part in coordinating the social activities and subjectivity in the plurality of contexts which is the basis of modern social life. Through the study of the social organisation of human practices (e.g. in a workplace, a child care centre, or a health care practice) the research aims to analyse relations between the challenges of everyday life, perspectives, and technologies. Furthermore, the research group makes analyses of the influence of these relations on how human subjects understand each other and act together.