Walter Korpi
Walter Korpi (Koutojärvi, Sweden, 1934) is a Swedish sociologist. Together with the Swedish politician and sociologist Joakim Palme, they wrote the work "The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality", which has some detractors about its principles. 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 Boulder , Colorado between 1955 and 1956. From 1959 to 1964 he worked as a sociologist at the Militärpsykologiska institutet (Institute of Military Psychology) 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 professor of sociology until 1972. Since 1972 he became a professor of social policy and continues to do so until today. 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. Awards. Some of the most outstanding awards or recognitions: