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Social sciences are one of the key areas of expertise in the University of Tampere, Finland. Currently, the most characteristic feature within social sciences is a strong orientation towards culturally and textually focused research. The Qualitative Social Research Unit (Lyhty), founded in spring 1999, brings together qualitative researchers and their often interrelated work conducted in different academic disciplines, research institutes and research projects in the University of Tampere. The Unit engages in practical discussion and cooperation within research, teaching, and doctoral schooling. The researchers in the unit share an interest in social practices that construct knowledge, meanings and material conditions. The unit is orientated especially towards data-based research, emphasizing detailed analysis of, for example, cultural products and recorded, interactional data as a basis for theorization. This type of research is increasingly useful outside the academic world, for example in mass media audience research as well as health care and other research into processes of clienthood in social and human services.
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