Pertti Alasuutari#
| Membership Number: | 5217 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.tuni.fi/en/pertti-alasuutari |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-4111-9641 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Academy Professor, Tampere University (Academy of Finland funding) 2016-2020 (after which back to Professor of Sociology)
- 2014 - 2015 Professor of Sociology, University of Tampere
- 2009 - 2013 Academy Professor, University of Tampere (Academy of Finland funding)
- 2007 - 2008 Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tampere
- 2006 - 2008 Professor, Director of the International School of Social Sciences, Univ. of Tampere
- 2002 - 2006 Professor, Director of the Research Institute for Social Sciences, Univ. of Tampere
- 1997 - 2006 Professor of Sociology, Univ. of Tampere
- 1994 - 1997 Acting professor of sociology
- 1985 - 1994 Assistant Professor of Sociology, Univ. of Tampere
- 1983 - 1984 Researcher in The Finnish Foundation for Alcohol Studies
Fields of Scholarship
- Global and transnational sociology
- Cultural sociology
- Social research methodology
- Qualitative research
- Media studies
Honours and Awards
- Institute for Advanced Social Research, University of Tampere, Finland, Permanent Fellow
- Professor of the Year 2014. Honorary title awarded by Professoriliitto, the Finnish Union of University Professors
- Knight, First Class, of the Order of the White Rose of Finland (Suomen Valkoisen Ruusun ritarikunnan 1. luokan ritarimerkki), 2006
- Finnish Academy of Science and Letters (Suomalainen tiedeakatemia, Academia Scientiarum Fennica), permanent member, 2004
