Tuukka Toivonen

Biographic Data

ID3787121
NAMETuukka Toivonen
GIVEN NAMESTuukka
FAMILY NAMEToivonen
SIGNATURETOIVONEN T
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Oxford
ORCID0000-0003-0390-2627
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX1

  • Diversity and Resistance to Change

    Open AccessCharles Lassiter, Vinai Norasakkunkit et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychology2018

    We argue that two society-level properties-resistance to change and diversity within a culture-significantly affect agents' degrees of marginalization, which is here defined as access to cultural knowledge and institutional means for accomplishing cultural goals. We develop an agent-based model using findings from Norasakkunkit et al. (Norasakkunkit and Uchida, 2011, 2014; Norasakkunkit et al., 2012). We found that varying the degrees of resistan…

  • Transcending labels and panics

    Tuukka Toivonen, Yuki ImotoARTICLEContemporary Japan2013Cited by: 1References: 7

    Social scientific research on Japanese youth experienced something of a boom in the 2000s and is attracting further attention following the triple disaster of 11 March 2011. But while advances have been made in understanding young people’s relationship to work, marginalization, and activism, for instance, the premises of this emerging field of research remain shaky. Despite cursory critiques of associated labels and recurring “moral panics,” the …

  • Japan's Emerging Youth Policy

    Tuukka Toivonen, Tuukka H I ToivonenBOOKJapan's emerging youth policy2012

    From the 1960s onwards, Japan's rapid economic growth coincided with remarkably smooth transitions from school to work and with internationally low levels of youth unemployment. However, this changed dramatically in the 1990s, and by the 2000s, youth employment came to be recognized as a serious concern requiring an immediate response. What shape did this response take? \n\n Japan's Emerging Youth Policy is the first book to investigate in detail…

  • A Sociology of Japanese Youth

    Roger Goodman, Yuki Imoto et al.EDITORBOOKA sociology of Japanese youth2012

    Over the past thirty years, whilst Japan has produced a diverse set of youth cultures which have had a major impact on popular culture across the globe, it has also developed a succession of youth problems which have led to major concerns within the country itself. Drawing on detailed empirical fieldwork, the authors of this volume set these issues in a clearly articulated ‘social constructionist’ framework, and put forth a sociology of Japanese …

  • Lost in Transition

    Tuukka ToivonenARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2012

    Reviewed by: Lost in Transition: Youth, Work, and Instability in Postindustrial Japan Tuukka Toivonen (bio) Lost in Transition: Youth, Work, and Instability in Postindustrial Japan. By Mary C. Brinton. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011. xxi, 203 pages. $85.00, cloth; $27.99, paper; $22.00, E-book. With her latest monograph, Mary Brinton once again sets the standard for conducting original sociological research on Japan and presenting it…

  • Japanese Youth

    Open AccessTuukka Toivonen, Noritoshi Furuichi et al.ARTICLEJapan focus2012

    Goodman, Roger, Imoto, Yuki, and Toivonen, Tuukka (2012) A Sociology of Japanese Youth: From Returnees to NEETs, Abingdon: Routledge (216 pages, $51.95 paperback, $155.00 cloth)Furuichi, Noritoshi (2011) Zetsubō no Kuni no Kōfuku na Wakamono-tachi (The Happy Youth of a Desperate Country), Tokyo: Kodansha (304 pages, ¥1,890 cloth

  • Is There Life after Work for Japan? Political 'Work-Life Balance' Research Begins to Address the Hard Questions

    Tuukka ToivonenARTICLESocial Science Japan Journal2011

    Journal Article Is There Life after Work for Japan? Political 'Work–Life Balance' Research Begins to Address the Hard Questions Get access Ronsō: Nihon no Wāku Raifu Baransu (Debate: Work-Life Balance in Japan), by Kazuo Yamaguchi and Yoshio Higuchi (eds). Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shinbun Shuppansha, 2008, 323 pp., ¥2,400 + tax (ISBN 978-4-532-13352-8)Hito o Ikasu Kigyō ga Nobiru: Jinji Senryaku toshite no Wāku Raifu Baransu (Companies That Make Full …

  • Don't let your child become a Neet!’ The strategic foundations of a Japanese youth scare

    Tuukka ToivonenARTICLEJapan Forum2011Cited by: 2References: 13

    This article contributes to the growing body of literature on Japanese youth problems by tracing and unpacking a recent moral panic surrounding young people identified as ‘NEETs’ for being ‘not in education, employment or training’. While sharing many key features with other mainstream youth problems in Japan, the case of ‘NEETs’ illuminates particularly well the strategic interplay of social labels and more technical policy categories. To this e…

  • To Discipline or Accommodate? On the Rehabilitation of Japanese 'Problem Youth

    Open AccessAaron Miller, Tuukka ToivonenARTICLEJapan focus2009Cited by: 1

    While mainstream education has received ample attention from scholars of Japan, the diverse kinds of private institutions concerned with the rehabilitation of so-called 'problem youth' have not hitherto been subjected to systematic analysis. This article offers an in-depth study of two starkly contrasting organizations, the Totsuka Yacht School and K2 International. We focus on the rehabilitation philosophies of these groups and examine how they …