Walter Korpi
Walter Korpi ( Koutojärvi, Sweden, 1934) is a Swedish sociologist. Korpi is a pioneer of power resource theory. Together with the Swedish politician and sociologist Joakim Palme, he wrote the work "The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality", which has some detractors about its principles. He is the brother of Sture Korpi. Academic and professional career He entered Stockholm University in 1958 and received a degree in philosophy from Stockholm University four years later. He also studied at the University of Colorado Boulder between 1955 and 1956. From 1959 to 1964 he worked as a sociologist at the Institute of Military Psychology (''Militärpsykologiska institutet'') and from 1965 to 1966 at the Swedish Metalworkers Union. He then worked as an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Stockholm University (1966-1968). He then worked as a professor of sociology at Umeå University until 1969 until he returned to the previous university as a profe ...
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