Tomi Oinas

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Tomi Oinas is a leading scholar in the sociology of technology and welfare, whose research critically examines the intersection of digitalization, aging, and labor. His most-cited work, "Positive Turn in Elder-Care Workers’ Views Toward Telecare Robots" (2021, 37 citations), charts a pivotal shift in caregiver attitudes, revealing how frontline workers in Finnish elder care have moved from skepticism to cautious acceptance of telecare robots. This study, building on a landmark 2016 survey, demonstrates Oinas’s ability to track evolving human-robot relations in real-world care settings. His broader contributions explore how technological adoption reshapes care work, often highlighting tensions between efficiency and the human touch. Oinas’s work has been instrumental in informing policy debates on welfare digitalization, earning him recognition as a key voice in Nordic social research. By blending quantitative rigor with nuanced attention to worker experiences, he provides essential insights for students and researchers navigating the future of care in an aging society.