Jani Erola
jani.erola@utu.fi +358 29 450 2157 +358 40 512 5286 Assistentinkatu 7 Turku Office: 497 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8008-7032 |
Areas of expertise
socioeconomic inheritance, social moblity, social class, education, income, inequality, life course
socioeconomic inheritance, social moblity, social class, education, income, inequality, life course
Research community or research topic
INVEST Research Flagship
INVEST Research Flagship
Biography
Jani Erola is Professor of Sociology at the University of Turku and the director of INVEST Research Flagship Center (invest.utu.fi). His research interests include intergenerational social mobility and socioeconomic inheritance, social class and stratification, family formation, sociological research methods, welfare state attitudes and social scientific publication patterns. His publications on these topics have appeared in major social scientific journals such as Social Science Research, Social Forces, European Sociological Review, Sociology, Acta Sociologica, Journal European Social Policy and Demography. He is a former PI of ERC Consolidator Grant Project "Intergenerational Cumulative Disadvantage and Resource Compensation (INDIRECT)", the editor of Acta Sociologica and the president of the Westermarck Society, the Finnish sociological association. According to Prof. Erola, he originally started looking at intergenerational social mobility as an interesting side project within his PhD, but “questions of inheritance took over and became what really motivated me as a researcher".
Jani Erola is Professor of Sociology at the University of Turku and the director of INVEST Research Flagship Center (invest.utu.fi). His research interests include intergenerational social mobility and socioeconomic inheritance, social class and stratification, family formation, sociological research methods, welfare state attitudes and social scientific publication patterns. His publications on these topics have appeared in major social scientific journals such as Social Science Research, Social Forces, European Sociological Review, Sociology, Acta Sociologica, Journal European Social Policy and Demography. He is a former PI of ERC Consolidator Grant Project "Intergenerational Cumulative Disadvantage and Resource Compensation (INDIRECT)", the editor of Acta Sociologica and the president of the Westermarck Society, the Finnish sociological association. According to Prof. Erola, he originally started looking at intergenerational social mobility as an interesting side project within his PhD, but “questions of inheritance took over and became what really motivated me as a researcher".
Teaching
- Introductory course lectures on sociology
- Master thesis seminar
- Current topics in social inequality
- Introductory course lectures on sociology
- Master thesis seminar
- Current topics in social inequality
Publications 
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- Parental resources, sibship size and educational performance in 20 countries (2016) Tanskanen A.O, Erola J., Kallio, J.
(Other publication) - Parental resources, sibship size and educational performance in 20 countries: Evidence for the compensation model (2016) Antti O. Tanskanen, Jani Erola, Johanna Kallio
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Parental Resources, Sibship Size, and Educational Performance in 20 Countries: Evidence for the Compensation Model (2016)
- Cross-Cultural Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Parental Resources, Sibship Size and Educational Performance in 20 Countries: Evidence for the Compensation Model (2016) Tanskanen A.O., Kallio J., Erola, J.
(Other publication) - Physical attractiveness – who believes it is a ticket to success? (2016)
- Research On Finnish Society
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The effect of early parental death on children’s university education (2016) Sanna Kailaheimo, Jani Erola
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Valitaan lehdet JUFO-tasoille äänestämällä! (2016)
- Acatiimi
(D1 Article in a professional journal) - Editorial note from the incoming editorship (2015)
- Acta Sociologica
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Intergenerational Scars? – Long-term Effect of Parental Unemployment during Depression on Socioeconomic Achievement (2015) Karhula Aleksi, Lehti Hannu, Erola Jani
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - No Crises but Methodological Separatism – A Comparative Study of Finnish and Danish Methodological Trends between 1990 and 2009 (2015)
- Sociology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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