Professor of Sociology at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University; Official Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University; member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Science (KVA).
My research concerns social stratification, e.g., educational inequality, social mobility, poverty, and ethnic integration and inequality. I am the Swedish PI for the international study CILS4EU which studies integration and living conditions among youth in Sweden, Germany, England, and the Netherlands (www.cils4.eu).
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At the Institute for Futures Studies, I am one of the research leaders of the current research program’s theme the socially sustainable society. I am also the PI of the ERC-funded project Ineqint on inequality and integration. Within this project, we will, among other things, conduct a large-scale study of high school students to examine how different dimensions of integration change over time among youth and young adults in Sweden — in terms of structural integration (e.g., education, employment), cultural integration (e.g., religion, values), social integration (e.g., interethnic relationships and networks), and psychological adjustment (e.g., mental well-being).
In September 2022 I published, together with Carina Mood and Georg Treuter (both previously at IFFS) the book Integration bland unga. En mångkulturell generation växer upp (Makadam förlag).
2009 Jan O. Jonsson, David B. Grusky, Matthew Di Carlo, Reinhard Pollak, and Mary C. Brinton “Micro-Class Mobility. Social Reproduction in Four Countries.” American Journal of Sociology 114: 977-1036.
2005 Richard Breen and Jan O. Jonsson: “Inequality of Opportunity in Comparative Perspective: Recent Research on Educational Attainment and Social Mobility.” Annual Review of Sociology 31:223-43.
1996 Robert Erikson and Jan O. Jonsson (eds.): Can Education Be Equalized? The Swedish Case in Comparative Perspective. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. ISBN 0-8133-2622-2.
