
Jani
Erola
Professor, INVEST flagship
INVEST Research Flagship
Areas of expertise
socioeconomic inheritance
social moblity
social class
education
income
inequality
life course
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".
Teaching
- Introductory course lectures on sociology
- Master thesis seminar
- Current topics in social inequality
Publications
Compensation and other forms of accumulation in intergenerational social inequality (2017)
(A3 Kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa)Ylisukupolvinen kasautuva huono-osaisuus Turussa ja muissa Suomen suurissa kaupungeissa (2017)
(D4 Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys)The Replaceable: The Inheritance of Paternal and Maternal Socioeconomic Statuses in Non-Standard Families (2017)
Social Forces
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Periytyvää eriytymistä - vanhemmilla selvä vaikutus nuorten äänestämiseen (2017)
(D1 Artikkeli ammattilehdessä)Kansainvälinen tiede, kotoperäinen hallinto (2017)
(E1 Yleistajuinen artikkeli, sanomalehtiartikkeli)Parental Resources, Sibship Size, and Educational Performance in 20 Countries: Evidence for the Compensation Model (2016)
Cross-Cultural Research
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Cumulative Socio-economic Disadvantage and Secondary Education in Finland (2016)
European Sociological Review
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)