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Jan O. JonssonProfessor of Sociology
Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI)
Stockholm University
SE-10691 Stockholm
SWEDEN
Phone: +46 8 162654
Fax: +46 8 154670
E-mail: janne.jonsson@sofi.su.se
Research interests
As responsible for the Swedish Level-of-Living Survey (LNU) (Level-of-Living (LNU) ), I have an interest in research in the level and distribution of welfare, particularly of children and young people. A report on this (Barn och ungdomars välfärd, SOU 2001:55) is available below as three pdf-files along with a chapter on young people's economic resources and consequences of hardship, written together with Viveca Östberg, CHESS (Ch 5 in Ekonomiskt utsatta barn, Ds 2004:41). Currently, I have a FAS project on children's families and living conditions together with Elizabeth Thomson, Demography, SU.My other main research areas are social stratification - including studies of educational inequality, the class structure, and social mobility - and life course studies. References are found in my attached CV; recent publications include:
Jonsson, J.O., David B. Grusky, Matthew Di Carlo, Reinhard Pollak, and Mary C. Brinton. 2009. “Micro-Class Mobility. Social Reproduction in Four Countries”, American Journal of Sociology, 114: 977-1036. (Micro-class mobility),
Jonsson, J.O. and C. Mood, 2008. "Choice by Contrast in Swedish Schools: How Peers' Achievement Affects Educational Choice", Social Forces, Vol. 87, pp. 741-65. (Jonsson-Mood SF),
Breen, R. and J.O. Jonsson. 2007. “Explaining Change in Social Fluidity: Educational Equalization and Educational Expansion in Twentieth Century Sweden”, American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 112, pp. 1775-1810. (Change in social fluidity),
Jonsson, J.O. and R. Erikson. 2007. “Sweden. Why Educational Expansion Is Not Such a Great Strategy for Equality: Theory and Evidence”, pp. 113-139 in Y. Shavit, R. Arum, and A. Gamoran (eds.), Stratification in Higher Education: A Comparative Study. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press,
Breen, R. and J.O. Jonsson. 2005. “Inequality of Opportunity in Comparative Perspective: Recent Research on Educational Attainment and Social Mobility”, Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 31, pp. 223-43. (Inequality, review).
My current research includes a project on micro-class mobility, together with David Grusky, Stanford, Reinhard Pollak, WZB, and Matthew di Carlo, Cornell (www.classmobility.org).
I am also engaged in studies of ethnic stratification, with a contribution to a book on comparative studies on ethnic inequality, edited by Anthony Heath and Sin-Yi Cheung, Unequal Chances: Ethnic Minorities in Western Labour Markets, OUP 2007 (Jonsson Ch 11 in Heath & Cheung) , and one study on ethnic segregation in schools, together with Ryszard Szulkin, SU (Sulcis WP 2007:2). Together with Frida Rudolphi, I take part in an Equalsoc project on ethnic differences in educational attainment, coordinated by Anthony Heath.
A critical view of sociology is given by Tom Lehrer. An introduction in Swedish of Tom Lehrer and his music can be found below.
