
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
Sibling correlations in family formation based on sequaence data (2012)
(B2 Kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa)Editorial note: National social science in global society (2012)
Research On Finnish Society
(B1 Kirjoitus tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Perhetaustan vaikutus toisen polven maahanmuuttajien kouluttautumiseen Suomessa. - Mahdollisuuksien tasa-arvo stressitestissä? (2011)
Yhteiskuntapolitiikka
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Kirjoituksia solidaarisuuden käsitteestä (2011)
Kansalaisyhteiskunta
(B1 Kirjoitus tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Ratkaiseeko raha? (2011)
(E1 Yleistajuinen artikkeli, sanomalehtiartikkeli)Mitä kummaa: tutkimuksestako taloudellinen myös välttämättömyys yliopistoille? (2011)
(E1 Yleistajuinen artikkeli, sanomalehtiartikkeli)Editorial note: On scientific expertise and research results (2011)
Research On Finnish Society
(B1 Kirjoitus tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Why Probability Has Not Succeeded in Sociology (2010)
Sociology
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)