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(revised April 2014) ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO / CV
J.P.Roos, (born 30.4.1945 in Helsinki) Professor emeritus 2012- Academy of Finland Research director 2012-2013 Studies
Scientific career
Vice president of European Sociological
Association 2001-2003 Head of Vastuu doctoral program
in social policy 2010-2012 Academic visitor, Department of
Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford 2010-2011 St John’s College Senior Room Member, Oxford 2011 Research director, Academy of Finland, September 2012-February 2013 Scientific activities I am a strongly research-oriented and theoretical social scientist whose
long career has been devoted to broad theoretical and conceptual development of
the field with strong anchoring in real life. I am well-versed both in
quantitative and qualitative research methods and have used both in my work
extensively. 1. Work in retirement 2. Evolutionary sociology 11. Welfare economics Many of these orientations have had to do with comparative studies, often
comparing capitalist and socialist (postsocialist) countries. Thus, I have
directed research projects and participated in many international comparative
research projects related to many of the above themes, and published many
articles about all of them. I am member of the International
sociological association (ISA), Association internationale des
sociologues de langue française (AISLF), American sociological
association (ASA), European Sociological Association (ESA), and International Society for Quality of Life Studies (ISQLS).
I have been in several research committees and their boards. I was
elected to the ESA executive in 1997 and became Vice President in 1999, and President in 2003. I was member of the
Board of the Research Committee "Biography and Society" of the ISA
until 1998. The ESA has created a research network on European
life stories, of which I was founder and chairman until
1999. I have been invited as full member of the Finnish Academy of
Sciences (Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia) in 1995. I have made study, research and lecture visits to
USA, Soviet Union (Russia), Poland, France, Federal Republic of Germany,
India. I have been invited as visiting professor or lecturer at several
universities around the world: UCLA (visiting lecturer), Brandeis,
Montréal, CUNY, Edinburgh, Paris (Maison des sciences de l'homme, visiting
professor), Geneva (visiting professor), Moscow (Academy of Sciences, Institute
of sociology), University of Minnesota (visiting professor) among others. Also,
I have functioned regularly as coordinator in sociological congresses and
meetings. I was responsible for the program of the ESA
Congress in Helsinki 2001 as ESA Vice President.
The congress was the then largest in ESA history with 1300 participants. In
the ESA Congress in Murcia, I became the first directly elected President
of the ESA for the years 2003-2005. Postgraduate teaching and guidance Since the 1970's I have directed
a large number of doctoral students, functioned as opponent and preliminary
examiner for approximately 2-4 doctoral students yearly, in different
disciplines and countries. I have acted as opponent abroad in a PhD
thesis at the Institut d'etudes politiques de Paris (June 2006). I
have been opponent or pre-examiner for over 30 PhD theses, 8 of which abroad
(U.K, France, Denmark, Norway, Sweden). My latest PhD opponent function
was in December 2013 in Linnéan University, Växjö. I have been co-director of the
graduate school of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Helsinki
(which is now part of Sovako), from its establishment in 1999 and have under my
personal guidance several doctoral students, in addition to which I direct,
since 1988, a postgraduate Seminar on life stories and autobiographies,
from which there have emerged already over ten PhD theses as well as several
licentiate theses. I have been instrumental in bringing the life story
approach to Finnish sociology. I was instigator and head (until my resignation as professor) of the Finnish
Graduate School of Social Policy (VASTUU) which has 8 paid PhD student
positions and was financed by the Academy of Finland for the years 2010-2013. Expert positions and honours I have functioned as expert for several professor chair appointments, both
in Finland and abroad. In Finland I have taken part actively in public
discussion and in expert positions. I have also served as member of two Government Commissions: on
Concentration of Economic Power in Finland (Keskittymiskomitea), and the
commission on Hours of Work (Työaikakomitea). I was also chairman of the
Finnish-Soviet sociological commission in the 1980's. I have received the Knight's Cross of the First Class of the Order of
the Finnish Lion in 2002, the University Distinguished Service Medal in 2005
and an honorary prize and letter of recognition from the Life History Academy
in 2004. I received the "Eskon puumerkki", an honorary prize
awarded by the Aleksis Kivi Society in 2009. I have been member of the Committee of Ethics of the Stakes
(National Research Centre for Social Affairs and Health) and of the
Committee of Ethics of THL (National Institute of Health and Welfare), from
2000-2009. I am presently member of the Swedish Board of Social Affairs
of the City of Helsinki. I have served as jury member (lautamies) of the
Helsinki District court from 2000 to 2009. Between 2002 and 2007 I was Vice
President of the Nordic
Committee of Human Rights. Personal Vision Arguably, my best known achievement
is the typology of Finnish generations in the 20th century, but I
have also theorized sexual generations, intimate relationships and life stories
in a way which have been useful for a large number of researchers. My
introduction of Pierre Bourdieu to the Finnish sociological community has also
been important. I have been an active debater (in 2008 I was invited to write a
regular blog in the
largest Finnish daily newspaper) and a controversial figure due to my recent
interest in evolutionary theory, which is not popular among present-day
postmodern or constructionist sociology. However, it seems that there is
growing interest in evolutionary theory and I have already inspired several
extremely gifted students to deepen their interest in evolutionary theory. I
have also participated internationally in creating a scientific community
interested in evolutionary theory (I am member of the ASA Evolution and
Sociology committee). I believe that the greatest problem in modern social sciences is in its
increasing practical irrelevance: social scientists have started to
believe that they may construct (i.e. make claims about) anything, which then
becomes socially relevant, without any regard for facts or reality. This is not
so. Human nature is not totally malleable, social relations are not just
figments of imagination, there are not 25 different sexes etc. There
are evolutionary regularities in human conduct, which needs to be taken
seriously and which form the basis of social analysis, instead of the
present talk of discourses and language constructions. This is especially true
in social policy, which is about the relationship of society, state and social
action of the individuals, not (primarily) about representations.
I am an extremely experienced teacher who has taught courses ranging from
introductory courses in social policy or evolutionary theory to very advanced
courses in methods or specific subjects. My teaching career stretches from 1970
when I returned from the US to the present day, and I have seldom given a
course twice (even if it sometimes may have carried the same name). I have also
used the internet as a forum for teaching almost as soon as it became
available. There are several course power points on my website, but the
introduction of blogging has made interactive teaching easy and more or
less unproblematic. My seminars have been extremely productive of master's
theses: nowadays 3-4 of them complete their theses during the seminar. I have published many of my lecture notes on my home page; some courses are
also available in video or audiotape. In 2009, I used for the first time an
interactive webblog for the students, which worked quite well (see blogs.helsinki.fi/huostaanotto). Free Access Internet Publishing In recent years I have specialized in internet publishing, so that many of
my articles have appeared simultaneously or even only in internet in my home
page. It is possible that they will also be printed, but it is my belief that
the internet is an ideal forum for direct publication, both for those who do
not have other channels and those with established credentials. Therefore, my
"portfolio" can be always easily found in the most complete form in
my website. Compared to paper publications, they are easily available
and can be checked out by anyone. I am fully responsible for their quality. I
believe that internet publishing will soon make publishing in paper form
obsolete in scientific publishing, especially from a quality perspective (see
for example the physicist, mathematics and biology forum ArXiv). Still, I
publish continuously articles in paper form also. Administration and management I am a strong believer of university autonomy and self-government. I
do not believe that the present development towards external management and
separation of administrative and academic management (as well as introducing
antiquated business management principles under the guise of New Public
Management into universities) will work in the long run. They have already
brought about the lowering of quality and mass production of degrees, as well
as a dramatic worsening of the general atmosphere in the universities. Therefore
it is necessary that all members of the university community share the burden
of administration, especially as only then can they understand what is
happening and are (hopefully) able to prevent dangerous developments in time. I have carried my load by being head of department and member of the faculty
council. I have also participated in the activities of the Union of Professors
(Professoriliitto) as board member of the Helsinki University local association
and alternate member in the council of the Union of Professors. I believe it is
our duty to oppose the attempts of government bureaucrats to infringe the
university autonomy and uncritically introduce market principles into
university administration and management. But now I also think that it is perhaps
better not to get upset over the constant changes imposed on the academic world
from outside, but rather ignore it and adapt to only the absolutely necessary
changes. This saves a lot of energy for other purposes (see my farewell
lecture, Roos 2012). List
of selected publications 2014-1973 Articles
in
international referee journals The 'Arctic Bourdieu': Four theses from the Nordic countries, Sosiologiskt Årsbok 3-4.2006, 87-102 Reality or
nothing. False and repressed memories in autobiography, in
Kim Lacy
Rogers et al (ed): Trauma and Life Stories. International
perspectives.
Memory and Narrative 2, Routledge, London 2000 (with Keijo Rahkonen): The Field of Intellectuals. The
Case of 300 000 yuppies? Mobile phones in European lives: The question of cultural comparisons through life stories. Auto/Biography 2 (No 1, 1993), 57-64 Behind the Happiness Barrier. Social Indicators Research 20 (1988), 141-163 From Farm to Office: Family, Self-Confidence and the New Middle Class. Life stories/Récits de vie 3.1987, 7-20 (with Keijo Rahkonen): In Search of the Finnish New Middle Class, in Acta Sociologica 3.1985, 257-274 Life Stories of Social Changes: Four
Generations of (with Barbara Roos): Upper class life over three generations: The case of the Swedish Finns, in Oral History 1.1984, 25-39. Tipologija obraza zhizhni. Sotsiologitsheskie issledovania 4.1981, 185-190 Theories of planning and democratic planning theory. Government and Opposition. A Quarterly of Comparative Politics 3.1974, 331-344 Theoretical problems of democratic planning. Acta Sociologica 3.1974, 217-235Books
in English/Swedish (Autobiography, culture, life). Symposion,
Books in Finnish (with Semi Purhonen. Tommi
Hoikkala): Kenen
sukupolveen kuulut? Suurten
ikäluokkien sosiologiaa. Gaudeamus, Helsinki 2008 Semi-Purhonen-
J.P.Roos (toim.): Bourdieu ja
minä. Näkökulmia Pierre
Bourdieun sosiologiaan..
Vastapaino, 2006 (ed.) Huostaanottokirja. Huostaanotettujen Lasten
Vanhempain Yhdistys,
Jyväskylä 2004 (&Tommi
Hoikkala, ed.): 2000-luvun elämä. Sosiologisia teorioita
vuosituhannen
vaihteesta. Gaudeamus, 2000
(with Tommi
Hoikkala ed.):
Elämänpolitiikka (Life Politics) Gaudeamus 1998 (with Anna
Rotkirch ed, with ): Vanhemmat
ja lapset. (Parents and Children) Gaudeamus 1997 Mieheltä. Tekstejä politiikasta, elämäntavasta ja kulttuurista. (From him. Texts on politics, life styles and culture) Tutkijaliitto, Helsinki 1995 Miehen
elämää
(Men's life) (edited, with Eeva Peltonen).
SKS, Helsinki 1994. Elämäntavasta
elämäkertaan (From way of life to life
story)
Tutkijaliitto, 1988 Suomalainen elämä. Tutkimus tavallisten suomalaisten elämäkerroista.(Finnish life. A study on ordinary Finns' life stories) SKS 1987 Elämäntapaa etsimässä. Tutkijaliitto 1985
Can we eliminate health inequalities? The Case of Finland. in Juhani Laurinkari (ed): Health, Wellness and Social Policy, Bremen (2010) Taistelusta
yhteistoimintaan. Pierre Bourdieu hyvinvointivaltion puolustajana,
teoksessa Juho
Saari-Sakari Taipale
(toim.): Hyvinvointivaltio.
Gaudeamus (2010) (with Elina
Haavio-Mannila) Why
are men
reporting more sexual (with Anna Rotkirch):
Habitus,
naturaleza o
educacion? Hacia un paradigma de la sociologia evolutiva (Habitus,
nature or nurture? Towards a paradigm of evolutionary
sociology) ,
in
Juan Monreal, Capitolina Diaz, Juan J. Garcia Escribano (eds): Viejas
Sociedades, nueva Sociologia. Centro
de Investigaciones Sociologicas, Madrid, 87-100 Laajat ja suppeat sukupolvet;
esimerkkinä suuret
ikäluokat ja niiden ympärille kertyneet sukupolviliikkeet. Antti Karisto (toim)
Suuret
ikäluokat. Vastapaino, Tampere, 2005, 208-221 (with Anna Rotkirch and Elina Haavio-Mannila) Do rich men have more sex? Gender, capital and sexual activity in four countries, in Kollind, A-K & A.Peterson (eds): Thoughts on family, gender, generation and class. Research Report No 133, Department of Sociology, Göteborg University 2002 Context, Authenticity, Referentiality; Back to Basics in Autobiography, in Robin Humphrey-Bob Miller and Elena Zdravomyslova (eds) : Biographies in Eastern Europe , Ashgate, 2002, 27-37 Life's turning points and generational consciousness, in Gunter Burkart- Jurgen Wolf (eds): Lebenszeiten. Erkundungen zur Soziologie der Generationen., Leske und Budrich , 2002, 119-134 Päätalo, Kalle in Margaretta Jolly (ed): Encyclopedia of Life Writing Vol 2, Fitzroy Dearborn, London, 2001 Sociology and Life Writing, in Margaretta Jolly (ed): Encyclopedia of Life Writing Vol 2, Fitzroy Dearborn, London, 2001 Tommi
Hoikkala-J.P.Roos: Onko
2000-luku elämänpolitiikan vuosituhat? in, Hoikkala-Roos
(toim): 2000-luvun
elämä, Gaudeamus 2000 (with Elina Haavio-Mannila): Love stories in sexual autobiographies. in Ruthellen Josselson and Amia Lieblich (eds): Making Meaning of Narratives Sage Publishers Thousand Oaks 1998, 239-282 (& Anna Rotkirch): Fält i skuggan av fält: sensocialismens dubbelliv (Fields in the shadow of fields) in Donald Broady (red) Kulturens fält Daidalos, Göteborg 1998(& Keijo Rahkonen): De intellektuellas fält: Fallet Finland (The field of intellectuals: The case of Finland) in Donald Broady (red): Kulturens fält. Daidalos, Göteborg 1998 (with Elina Haavio-Mannila): Pidättyvyyden polven miesten ja naisten rakkaustyylejä (Love styles of the generation of repression), in Matti Hyvärinen, Eeva Peltonen, Anni Vilkko (eds): Liikkuvat erot. Sukupuoli elämäkertatutkimuksessa. Vastapaino, Tampere 1998, 239-272 Context, Authenticity, Referentiality, Reflexivity; Back
to
Basics in
Autobiography, teoksessa Voronkov-Zdravomyslova (eds): Biographical
perspectives on post-socialist societies. Centre for
independent
social
research, Elina Haavio-Mannila, J.P. Roos and Osmo Kontula: Familienorientierung, Liberalisierung und Ambivalenz im Sexualleben dreier Generationen in Finnland, in B. Nauck ja C. Onnen-Isemann (hrsg) Familie im Brennpunkt von Wissenschaft und Forschung. Luchterhand 1995, 399-418 Miserable men: Finnish men's life stories in a European
perspective,
in Christa Hämmerle (ed) Plurality and
individuality. Autobiographical
cultures in Europe, IFK, Wien 1995 Pierre
Bourdieun pieni ja suuri
kurjuus, in Keijo Rahkonen (ed) Sosiologisen teorian uusimmat
virtaukset. Gaudeamus, (with Eija Nurminen): Models of parenting, between generations and classes. In Ulla Björnberg (ed) Parents in the 1990's. Conflicts, Contradictions and Change. Transaction books, New York1992 Life vs. Story vs. Society; a Methodological Bermuda
Triangle?, in
Björnberg, Ulla (ed): Methods for the study of changing forms
of life.
International Social Science Council. Life Style Studies in Sociology: From Typologies to
Fields and
Trajectories.
Somogyi JC, Koskinen, EH (eds.): Nutritional Adaptation to New
Life-Styles.
S.Karger, L'education comme projet de vie des femmes de la
nouvelle
classe moyenne, in
C.Lalive d'Epinay (ed): Travail, activité, condition humaine
à l'aube du
XXIe siècle Presses interuniversitaires européennes, Selected
articles
in Finnish referee
journals (med Anna Rotkirch): Segt paradigmskifte: Darwin och socialvetenskaperna. Nya Argus 9-10/2009, 199-204 Yhteiskuntapolitiikan
ajankohtaiset
ongelmat.
Janus
3.2006, 336-338 Elämänpolitiikka
ja evoluutio.Evoluutioteoria
ja
yhteiskuntatiede. Janus
4.2004, 412-425
(with
Anna Rotkirchin ): Habituksen paluu? Osa I
(Tieteessä tapahtuu 1.2003)
Sosiologin
vaikea biologia.
Yhteiskuntapolitiikka
6/2003,
635-639 Om
tillvaratagande av
folkets självbiografier. Historisk tidskift för Finland 2.1988, 266-271 Mitä
yhteisen kansan
omaelämäkerrat kertovat ja miten? Tiede&Edistys
3.1987, 204-211 Sosiaalipolitiikka
ja
keskiluokka. Sosiaalipolitiikka
1985,
67-80 Yhteiskunnan
muutos ja
arkielämä. Tiede &
Edistys
3,1983, 6-15 Elämäntapatutkimus
ja
elämäntavan
tyypit. Sosiaalinen aikakauskirja
1,
1983, 4-7 Elämäntapojen
tyypeistä
elämäkertojen valossa. Sosiologia
4,
1981, 297-306 Elämisen
laatu ja
elämäntapa
12970-luvulla. Sosiaalinen aikakauskirja
6, 1980 Kriisi,
elämäntapa,
onnellisuus. Tiede & edistys
2. 1978 Piirteitä
elämäntavan
tutkimuksesta. Sosiologia 2.1978 Suunnittelun
teorioista. Sosiologia
6.1973 Asiatiskt
drama. Ekonomiska samfundets tidskrift 1.1971, 51-58 For the year
1994 and
after, see full list of publications
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