Jani Erola
jani.erola@utu.fi +358 29 450 2157 +358 40 512 5286 Assistentinkatu 7 Turku : 497 |
socioeconomic inheritance, social moblity, social class, education, income, inequality, life course
INVEST Research Flagship
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".
- Introductory course lectures on sociology
- Master thesis seminar
- Current topics in social inequality
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- Cyclic Educational Transitions and Social Inequality: Re-applications After Educational Rejections
(2022) Heiskala Laura, Kilpi-Jakonen Elina, Sirniö Outi, Erola jani - Licensed Professionals and Intergenerational Big-, Meso- and Micro-Class Immobility within the Upper Class; Social Closure and Gendered Outcomes among Italian Graduates (2022)
- Social Sciences
- Socioeconomic Background and Gene-Environment Interplay in Social Stratification across the Early Life Course (2022)
- European Sociological Review
- The limited role of personal goal striving in status attainment, Social Science Research (2022)
- Social Science Research
- The role of partnering and assortative mating for income inequality: The case of Finland, 1991–2014 (2022)
- Acta Sociologica
- Compensatory and Multiplicative Advantages: Social Origin, School Performance, and Stratified Higher Education Enrolment in Finland (2021)
- European Sociological Review
- Formal differentiation at upper secondary education in Finland: subject-level choices and stratified pathways to socio-economic status and unemployment (2021)
- Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
- Geographical mobility and children's non-completion of upper secondary education in Finland and Germany: Do parental resources matter? (2021)
- British Educational Research Journal
- Is professional regulation a highway to social immobility at top? Social closure and gendered outcomes in Italy (2021) Ruggera Lucia, Erola Jani
- Kuksalla, kuupalla ja ämpärillä (2021)
- Ydin
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