Introduction
Jani Erola is the director of INVEST Research Flagship Center and Professor of Sociology at the University of Turku.
His research interests include social class and stratification, family formation, intergenerational social mobility socioeconomic inheritance, sociological research methods, and welfare state institutions and attitudes. 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. 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”.
Expert
I am the director of INVEST Research Flagship Center and Professor of Sociology at the University of Turku.
My research interests include social class and stratification, family formation, intergenerational social mobility socioeconomic inheritance, sociological research methods, and welfare state institutions and attitudes.
Fields of expertise: Education, Inclusive social development / inclusive societies / social inclusion, Social change / social transformations, Social policy, Youth