Ulla Aatsinki - Families, Values, and the Transfer of Knowledge in Northern Societies, 1500–2000

This edited collection sheds light on Nordic families strategies and methods for transferring significant cultural heritage to the next generation over centuries. Contributors explore why certain values, attitudes, knowledge, and patterns were selected while others were left behind and show how these decisions served and secured families well-being and values. Covering a time span ranging from the early modern era to the end of the twentieth century, the book combines the innovative history from below approach with a broad variety of families and new kinds of source material to open up new perspectives on the history of education and upbringing.

Ulla Aatsinki is a researcher at the University of Tampere.

Johanna Annola is a research fellow at the Centre of Excellence in History of Experiences, University of Tampere.

Mervi Kaarninen is a senior lecturer in History at the University of Tampere.

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Families, Values, and the Transfer of Knowledge in Northern Societies, 15002000

Edited by Ulla Aatsinki, Johanna Annola, and Mervi Kaarninen

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Edited by Ulla Aatsinki, Johanna Annola, and Mervi Kaarninen

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Names: Aatsinki, Ulla, editor. | Annola, Johanna, editor. | Kaarninen, Mervi, editor.

Title: Families, values, and the transfer of knowledge in Northern societies, 15002000 / edited by Ulla Aatsinki, Johanna Annola, and Mervi Kaarninen.

Description: New York : Routledge, 2019. | Series: Routledge studies in cultural history ; Volume 66 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018042651 (print) | LCCN 2018052909 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367077570 (hbk.) | ISBN 9780429022623 (ebk.)

Subjects: LCSH: FamiliesFinlandHistory. | FamiliesScandinaviaHistory. | ValuesFinlandHistory. | ValuesScandinaviaHistory.

Classification: LCC HQ638.3 (ebook) | LCC HQ638.3 .F36 2019 (print) | DDC 306.85094897dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018042651.

ISBN: 978-0-367-07757-0 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-429-02262-3 (ebk)

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ULLA AATSINKI, JOHANNA ANNOLA, AND MERVI KAARNINEN

PART I
Raising a Family

SATU LIDMAN

RAISA MARIA TOIVO

ANTTI HKKINEN

PART II
Transferring Livelihood Values

ULLA IJS

MERJA UOTILA

VIBEKE KIEDING BANIK AND LAURA EKHOLM

SINIKKA SELIN

PART III
Focusing on Social Mobility

OLLI MATIKAINEN

JOHANNA ANNOLA

MERVI KAARNINEN

PART IV
Dealing with Tensions

ULLA AATSINKI

ASTRI ANDRESEN

METTE BUCHARDT

This book is a result of a research project called History of Society: Re-thinking Finland 14002000, a Finnish Centre of Excellence in Historical Research, University of Tampere (20122017), funded by the Academy of Finland. The Centre of Excellence employed a transnational, comparative perspective and a longue dure approach to the history of society. The work was organised around four research teams, one of which focused on communities. This book is produced by the community team. The team, led by Professor Pirjo Markkola (University of Tampere), studied how people have organised their everyday lives in their own communities. It explored the historical rules, divisions, limits, and spaces of social life and discussed how these related to local, regional, and national structures and transnational ideologies. The editors of this collection of essays were members of the community team. The collection is based on a series of workshops, organised by the editors in 20142015 and funded by the above-mentioned Centre of Excellence. The editors want to thank Professor Pirjo Markkola and the anonymous reviewers for their fruitful comments, as well as Matthew James (University of Tampere) for proofreading the manuscript.

Ulla Aatsinki, Johanna Annola, and Mervi Kaarninen

The Nordic societies are known for their welfare state model and equality. They have dominated international statistics on egalitarianism, well-being, happiness, and education in the twenty-first century.1 While it has been suggested that this development is the result of the long-standing stability and homogeneity of the Nordic societies, the overall picture is much more complicated: Nordic communities and societies have undergone changes, too. All major global ideological, economic, and cultural turns and crises have reached the north of Europe over the centuries. The consequences of these crisessuch as changes of national borders and constitutions; the impact of international finance and trade; transfers of cultures, religions, and ideas; and experiences of repression and migrationhave had a significant impact on every Nordic society.