Jarmo’s dissertation, The Intergenerational Transmission of Socially Stratified Lifestyles (available open access at https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-03-2899-3), was successfully defended on Wednesday 7 June at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University. Professor Henk Roose from Ghent University, Belgium, acted as the Opponent, while Semi Purhonen from Tampere University acted as the Custos.
The press release by the Tampere University can be found here: https://www.tuni.fi/en/news/jarmo-kallunki-socially-stratified-lifestyles-are-also-inherited-finland
The dissertation also featured in the leading Finnish newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat on 8 June 2023 (“Luokkanousu ei kokonaan muuta kulttuurista makua”, written by Mikko Puttonen, HS 8.6.2023, Tiede, B8). The online version of the article can be found here: https://www.hs.fi/tiede/art-2000009628509.html
Jarmo will continue working in the research group as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Academy of Finland funded Cultures of the Working Class in the 2020s (CuWoC) project.