Jan O. Jonsson#
| Membership Number: | 2180 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
| Elected: | 2002 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Homepage(s): | http://www2.sofi.su.se/~joj |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2007-2008 Director of the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI)
- since 1999 Director of the Swedish Level-of-Living Survey Project (LNU)
- since 1998 Professor of Sociology, SOFI
Fields of Scholarship
- Social stratification
- Studies of educational inequality
- Social mobility
- Children's well-being
- Ethnic stratification
Honours and Awards
- 1993 The Swedish Government Award to young promising researchers
- 2007 Elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science (KVA)
- Member of European Academy of Sociology
- Member of Academia Europaea
