
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
Labor and love – Wives' employment and divorce risk in its socio-political context (2013)
Wives' employment and divorce risk in its socio-political context
Social Politics
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Social workers’ perceptions of the causes of poverty in the Nordic countries (2013)
Journal of European Social Policy
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Sosiologipäivät Turussa 21.-22.3.2013 – Odottamattomat seuraukset (2013)
Odottamattomat seuraukset
Sosiologia
(B1 Kirjoitus tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Luokat ja liikkuvuus hyvinvointivaltiossa – John H. Goldthorpen toimintateoreettinen viitekehys (2013)
John H. Goldthorpen toimintateoreettinen viitekehys
Diakonia-Ammattikorkeakoulun Julkaisuja A: Tutkimuksia
(A3 Kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa)
Hyvinvointivaltio notkeassa modernissa − Zygmunt Baumanin yhteiskuntapoliittinen aikalaisdiagnoosi (2013)
Diakonia-Ammattikorkeakoulun Julkaisuja A: Tutkimuksia
(A3 Kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa)
Sosiaalinen eriarvoisuus (2013)
Sosiologia
(B1 Kirjoitus tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Editorial note – Wrapping up the past volumes (2013)
Wrapping up the past volumes
Research On Finnish Society
(B1 Kirjoitus tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
More Careful or Less Marriageable? Parental Divorce, Spouse Selection and Entry into Marriage (2012)
Social Forces
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)