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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- Why Probability Has Not Succeeded in Sociology (2010)
- Sociology
- Yhteenveto (2010) Luokaton Suomi? Yhteiskuntaluokat 2000-luvun Suomessa Erola J
- Yhteiskuntaluokat, tulot ja lasten määrä (2010) Luokaton Suomi? Yhteiskuntaluokat 2000-luvun Suomessa Erola J
- Social Mobility and Education of Finnish Cohorts Born 1936-75 Succeeding While Failing in Equality of Opportunity? (2009)
- Acta Sociologica
- Social mobility over three generations in Finland, 1950-2000 (2007)
- European Sociological Review
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