TCuPS - Tampere Research Group for Cultural and Political Sociology

TCuPS is a multidisciplinary research group within the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Tampere. Within the group, questions of power and politics are approached from a cultural, constructionist and neoinstitutionalist perspective. This means that the phenomena studied are conceived as contingent historical creations, best made sense of by relating people’s actions and routine assumptions to the institutional context in which they live, for instance to the nation-state as a worldwide institution. Current key activities include a research project that studies the governance of global change and the domestication of global trends to nation states and other local contexts, and another one that focuses on how media and technology are domesticated to people's everyday lives.