Yhteysperusteinen

Yhteysperusteinen is a Finnish adjective used to describe a perspective, method, or assessment that is founded on connections between elements rather than on the attributes of the elements in isolation. The word combines yhteys, meaning connection or relationship, with perusteinen, meaning based on or fundamental. In Finnish scholarly and practical discourse, yhteysperusteinen approaches are characterized by attention to how components relate to each other within a system, network, or context.

In sociology and network science, a yhteysperusteinen analysis focuses on social ties, interactions, and structural positions rather than individual characteristics. In education, a yhteysperusteinen pedagogy would emphasize the relationships among concepts, learners, and contexts in learning processes. In information technology and data science, the term can describe models and analyses that rely on relationships, such as graph-based representations, relational databases, or knowledge graphs. In linguistics, a similar idea may be described as relation- or dependency-based analysis, though the exact Finnish term may vary; yhteysperusteinen would convey that syntactic and semantic interpretation derives from how elements are connected rather than from their standalone properties.

Advantages include heightened sensitivity to context and emergent properties of systems; limitations include data requirements and analytical complexity. Because the term is not a fixed technical label in all fields, its precise meaning can vary; it is best understood from the context in which it appears. See also related concepts such as relational approaches and network-based analysis.