Outi Sarpila
outi.sarpila@utu.fi Assistentinkatu 7 Turku |
sociology of physical appearance; sociology of consumption;social inequality; survey research
I am currently working as a professor of sociology at the University of Turku.
I completed my Master's degree in Economic Sociology at the Turku School of Economics in 2007. In 2013, I successfully defended my PhD thesis on consumption related to appearance at the University of Turku, Faculty of Social Sciences.
I work as PI of the project "The social mechanisms behind the economic consequences of physical appearance, SOMA" funded by the Academy of Finland (2019-2023). During 2016-2018 I led research project “Finland as an appearance society” funded by Emil Aaltonen foundation. I'm also part of the consumption reference budget research team at the University of Turku.
Currently, I am working on the book "Handbook of Beauty and Inequality" together with my colleague Professor Giselinde Kuipers (KU Leuven). The book is scheduled to be published in 2024.
https://soma.utu.fi
https://sites.utu.fi/viitebudjetit
At the Bachelor's level in Social Sciences: I teach in courses on social science theories and social inequality. Additionally, I coordinate the Finnish Society course designed for exchange students.
At the Master's level in Sociology: I am responsible for the Sociological Essay course and supervise Master's theses.
In the doctoral program: I organize PhD seminars and and supervise doctoral dissertations.
- The Metrosexual Who Never Visited Finland – The Eternal Gender Gap in Appearance-related Consumption (2021) Appearance as Capital Sarpila Outi
- Academic work and the (unequal) impacts of COVID-19 (Editorial note) (2020)
- Research On Finnish Society
- Compliment Rules or Compliments Rule? A Population-Level Study of Appearance Commenting Norms on Social Media (2020)
- International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
- Double standards in the accumulation and utilisation of ‘aesthetic capital’ (2020)
- Poetics
- From double to triple standards of ageing. Perceptions of physical appearance at the intersections of age, gender and class. (2020)
- Journal of Aging Studies
- Randomized picture rating tool for surveys: version 1.0 (2020) Outi Sarpila, Anna Grahn, Aki Koivula, Eero Stürmer, Teemu Tuovinen
- Aluksi (2019) Ulkonäköyhteiskunta - ulkoinen olemus pääomana 2000-luvun Suomessa Outi Sarpila
- Examining Social Desirability Bias in Online and Offline Surveys (2019)
- International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
- Lopuksi: pää ulkona peilikaapista (2019) Ulkonäköyhteiskunta – Ulkoinen olemus pääomana 2000-luvun Suomessa Outi Sarpila
- Miten asenteemme ruokkivat ulkonäköyhteiskuntaa? (2019) Ulkonäköyhteiskunta - ulkoinen olemus pääomana 2000-luvun Suomessa Outi Sarpila
- Normit ihon alla: kokemuksia ulkonäköpaineista (2019) Ulkonäköyhteiskunta - ulkoinen olemus pääomana 2000-luvun Suomessa Tero Pajunen, Iida Kukkonen, Outi Sarpila
- Trust in science and the role of open access publishing (2019)
- Research On Finnish Society
- Ulkonäkökulutuksella kohti parempaa minää ja elämää? (2019) Ulkonäköyhteiskunta – Ulkoinen olemus pääomana 2000-luvun Suomessa Outi Sarpila, Erica Åberg
- Ulkonäköyhteiskunta – Ulkoinen olemus pääomana 2000-luvun Suomessa (2019) Iida Kukkonen, Tero Pajunen, Outi Sarpila, Erica Åberg
- Ulkonäön markkinat: rakkauden markkinoilla (2019) Ulkonäköyhteiskunta – Ulkoinen olemus pääomana 2000-luvun Suomessa Outi Sarpila, Erica Åberg
- Exploitation of aesthetic capital - disapproved by whom? (2018)
- International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
- Instagram on internetin jakojäännös (2018)
- Turun sosiaalitieteilijä
- Älä soita tänään – tieteestä puhumisen sietämätön vaikeus (2017)
- Turun yliopiston blogi
- Does domestic outsourcing reduce time spent on housework? Evidence from the Finnish time use survey (2017) Merita Jokela, Outi Sarpila
- Do mail and web surveys yield similar results when examining attitudes towards immigrants? (2017)
- Research papers in economic sociology
