Miika Vähämaa

Miika Vähämaa
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Miika Vähämaan sosiaalipsykologian väitöskirja ”Groups as epistemic communities – Studies on the role of groups in forming and circulating social knowledge” tarkastettiin Helsingin yliopistossa 18.6.2015. Vastaväittäjänä toimi dosentti Teemu Rantanen (Laurea-ammattikorkeakoulu) ja kustoksena professori Anna-Maija Pirttilä-Backman (Helsingin yliopis...
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Co-creation assumes an interactive and dynamic relationship where value is created at the nexus of interaction. Co-creating value is challenging with marginalized youths. In this article, social media is seen as an underutilized resource for developing services. This article approaches social media as a context from which it is possible to derive i...
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Common sense and common meaning of words are linguistic and psychological elements that enable people to speak and to understand each other with ease. Accordingly, ease and fluidity of interaction do not arise on their own. On the contrary, if we lose common sense and commonly shared language, we face disorderliness, chaos, and misunderstandings in...
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The article claims that psychological problems cannot be defined by universally meaningful psychological or philosophical scientific terminology, which leads one to consider the actual reality of psychological problems from the universal epistemological viewpoint of ordinary people. In other words, can we as laypeople or professionals reasonably cl...
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Common sense, language, and semantic primes are linguistic and psychological elements that enable people to speak and to understand each other with ease. Ease and fluidity of interaction do not, however, arise on their own. On the contrary, if we lose common sense, commonly shared language and even some primitive basic components of language, such...
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The ‘epistemic calculus of groups’ posits functions to group-generated knowledge. In this article, those same epistemic group functions are now re-evaluated as means by which group members may tackle two contemporary and increasing challenges, or even obstructions, to knowledge. These obstructions, namely the liminality, the increasingly transition...
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Journalists and politicians play different roles in the functional structure of the Habermasian public sphere; as such, they might be expected to have different understandings of what knowledge production and transmission might mean. This difference of understanding is more than a conflict over definitions; it is an epistemic divergence à la Fuller...
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Individuals desire a coherent worldview that both maintains personal affective states and contains functional knowledge enabling the completion of quotidian tasks. To create such a worldview, individuals seek information from both large-scale and local reference groups. Thus, group membership serves an important epistemic function. In this article,...
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Very much in the very same way as every written argument must start with a letter, must every group start with an epistemology—at least some sort of lay theory of understandable and nonsense sentences. “No man is an island,” goes the saying. From the viewpoint of a group epistemology, a group comes to exist because there are detectable signs of its...
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The article presents a comparison between Norwegian and Finnish university students’ perceptions of what mathematics is. To carry out the comparison, a mix of qualitative - the creation of abstract and concrete categories for mathematics representations - and quantitative (regression modeling) methods was used in the study. The main result of the s...
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Endast avhandlingens sammandrag. Pappersexemplaret av hela avhandlingen finns för läsesalsbruk i Statsvetenskapliga biblioteket (Unionsgatan 35). Dessa avhandlingar fjärrutlånas endast som microfiche. Abstract only. The paper copy of the whole thesis is available for reading room use at the Library of Social Sciences (Unioninkatu 35) . Microfiche c...

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