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Hållsten, Henrik

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“…Clearly, the RC had succeeded in building up the young men's selfconfidence. Previous studies have also reported that work or other meaningful activities, for example, participation in labor market measures, have positive effects on selfconfidence (Feather & Bond, 1983;Hallsten, Grossi, & Westerlund, 1999;Jahoda, 1982). Thus, the value of developing and running RCs for young unemployed men to increase their self-confidence, and ultimately their wellbeing and health, cannot be stressed enough.…”

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Young Finnish Unemployed Men’s Experiences of Having Participated in a Specific Active Labor Market Program

2015

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The purpose of the present study was to describe young Finnish unemployed men's experiences of having participated in a specific active labor market program, intended to fight unemployment and offered at a resource center. Fifteen young unemployed Finnish men in the age range 18 to 27 years were interviewed face-to-face. Purposive sampling was used to increase the variation among informants. The interview texts were analyzed using both manifest and latent qualitative content analysis. The present results reported that the young men felt that they, thanks to the program at the resource center, had acquired daily routines and could ultimately believe in the future. The young men described how they now had a structure, economic support, and that they could return to their daily life. The informants also described how they could see new possibilities and believe in oneself. There is a lack of empirical studies assessing the possible impact of active labor market programs on the unemployed based on participants' own experiences. Further research is needed to describe and elucidate in more detail the effects of targeted support measures and the needs of unemployed men of different ages and living in different contexts.

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Young Finnish Unemployed Men’s Experiences of Having Participated in a Specific Active Labor Market Program

2015

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“…This is a short-hand way of ascribing archaeological value because it is erroneously assumed that more, or higher quality, units of study will always result in better, or more complete, archaeological interpretations. Theoretically, this is a form of "deductive chauvinism" or the idea that better data always leads to better interpretations (Coffa, 1974;Salmon, 1984: 111-20;Hållsten, 1999). It also presupposes that explanation will reveal itself from the archaeological record given enough time.…”

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Human Energetics and the Modelling of Cultural Landscapes

Whitley

2016

Multi-, Inter- And Transdisciplinary Research in Landscape Archaeology

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Landscape archaeology is a broad field that seeks to place what we consider "archaeological" into a spatial context, whether that be literal, theoretical, or conceptual. With more recent approaches to social-spatial simulation (through GIS or agentbased modelling techniques) this has entailed complex mathematical methods or procedures which can be quite difficult to evaluate or even understand as a representation of past human activity. It could be said that archaeological remains often drive the construction of the simulation, or conversely that social complexity is expected to organically emerge from simple programmed "rules" of behaviour in a frictionless or highly generalised manifold. Naturally, the result has been models that have been dismissed as missing the point, or being too simplistic to be of any use because they neither consider past people's cognitive intentions nor the material remains that have been eradicated by taphonomic processes. Perhaps we need to redefine what it is that interests us as archaeologists. Is it finding sites, features and artefacts? Or is it understanding past human behaviour in the context of objective-oriented mechanisms, preferably within a spatial framework? If it is the latter, then maybe we need to look at modelling human energetics as both a past "spatial currency" and as a primary unit of analysis. Sites, artefacts and features are by-products in the human expression of energy across the landscape, and they should be defined and used as such in understanding and evaluating complex spatial models. A large-scale GIS simulation of the first century BC Helvetian subsistence economy (an on-going project) is used to illustrate these ideas.

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Young Finnish Unemployed Men’s Experiences of Having Participated in a Specific Active Labor Market Program

Young Finnish Unemployed Men’s Experiences of Having Participated in a Specific Active Labor Market Program

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