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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- Huipputuloisuuden alueellinen periytyminen (2024) Eriarvoisuuden tila Suomessa 2024 Karonen, Esa; Erola, Jani
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Introduction: The economic and sociological approaches to studying the intergenerational transmission of inequality : Similarities, differences and convergence (2024) Research Handbook on Intergenerational Inequality Blanden, Jo; Erola, Jani; Kilpi-Jakonen, Elina; Macmillan, Lindsey
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Research Handbook on Intergenerational Inequality (2024) Kilpi-Jakonen, Elina; Blanden, Jo; Erola, Jani; Macmillan, Linsey
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - State-of-the-art review of spillovers over the life course (2024) Figueroa González, Mijail; Erola, Jani
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Educational attainment and family composition across generations, origin and place (2023) Lehti, Hannu; Tuominen, Minna; Kilpi-Jakonen, Elina; Erola, Jani
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Educational tracking and social inequalities in long-term labor market outcomes: Six countries in comparison (2023)
- International Journal of Comparative Sociology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Genes and Equality of Opportunity : Lessons from a highly egalitarian country (2023) Erola, Jani; Baier, Tina; Lehti, Hannu
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Intergenerational social mobility of cohorts born from 1951 to 1980 in Finland (2023) Ruggera Lucia, Kilpi-Jakonen Elina, Erola Jani
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Oppimiserojen kasvu pitää pysäyttää (2023) Erola Jani, Kilpi-Jakonen Elina, Lehti Hannu, Kaakinen Johanna
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Persistent university intentions: Social origin differences in stopping applying to university after educational rejection(s) (2023)
- Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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