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.

He also studied at the University of Colorado Boulder between 1955 and 1956.

He entered Stockholm University in 1958 and received a degree in philosophy from Stockholm University four years later.

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.

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.

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 professor of sociology until 1972.

From the 1970s onwards, he focused largely on labor disputes and class struggle, and to a lesser extent on health care research.

Some of the most outstanding awards or recognitions:

Since 1972 and until his retirement he was professor of social policy.