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Walter Korpi ( Koutojärvi, Sweden,
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) is a
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sociologist. Korpi is a pioneer of power resource theory. Together with the
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politician and sociologist
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, 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
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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
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. 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
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until 1969 until he returned to the previous university as a professor of sociology until 1972. Since 1972 and until his retirement he was professor of social policy. At the beginning, in the 1960s, when Korpi was at the Institute of Military Psychology, he focused primarily on attitudes and well-being in the military. Notable is the publication Social Pressures and Attitudes in Military Training, the thesis with which he presented himself when he graduated in 1962 in sociology. From the 1970s onwards, he focused largely on labor disputes and class struggle, and to a lesser extent on health care research.


Publications

* The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality: Welfare State Institutions, Inequality and Poverty in the Western Countries ”(with Joakim Palme). American Sociological Review, 63 (661-687), 1998 * The Working Class in Welfare Capitalism. Work, Unions and Politics in Sweden. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978. * Korpi, W. (1980) 'Social Policy and Distributional Conflict in the Capitalist Democracies. A Preliminary Comparative Framework ', West European Politics, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 296–316. * The democratic class struggle. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983


Awards

Some of the most outstanding awards or recognitions: * 1978 C. Wright Mills Award for ''The Working Class in Welfare Capitalism: Work, Unions and Politics in Sweden'' * 1990 Statistical Award from the Swedish Statistical Association for the article ''Sweden is left behind?'' ''The economic growth of Suencia 1820-1990 in a comparative perspective.'' (originally, in Swedish; ''Halkar Sverige efter?'' ''Sveriges ekonomiska tillväxt 18201990 and jämförande belysning'' * Doctor Honoris Causa 2000 from the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Turku,
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Walter Korpi-Institutet för framtidsstudier.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Korpi, Walter Living people Swedish political scientists Swedish sociologists Academic staff of Stockholm University 1934 births