Professor Ronald P. Dore (born 1925) is a British sociologist specialising in Japanese economy and society and the comparative study of types of capitalism. He is an associate of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics

London School of Economics

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 and is a fellow of the British Academy

British Academy

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, the Japan Academy, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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. The citation for his eminent scholar award from the Academy of International Business

Academy of International Business

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 describes him as "an outstanding scholar whose deep understanding of the empirical

Empirical

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 phenomena he studies and ability to build on it to develop theoretical contributions are highly respected not only by sociologists but also by economists, anthropologists, historians, and comparative business systems scholars".

Early life

The son of a train driver, Dore went to Poole Grammar School

Poole Grammar School

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. With the outbreak of the Japanese war, he was one of the "Dulwich boys", so-called because of their lodgings at Dulwich College

Dulwich College

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, 30 sixth form students chosen to study languages at The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) to boost the ranks of military translators. Other "Dulwich boys" included P. G. O'Neill

Patrick Geoffrey O'Neill

P. G. O'Neill is a British academic and writer on Japanese language and Noh drama.P. G. O'Neill was, with Ronald P. Dore, Sir Peter Parker and John McEwan one of the "Dulwich boys", 30 sixth-formers who commenced study of Japanese at SOAS in May 1942.After the war P. G...

, John McEwan and Sir Peter Parker. Although he had chosen Turkish as his first, and Chinese as his second choice language, he arrived at SOAS to discover that he had been enrolled in the Japanese course. After injuring himself before he could take part in active service, he returned to the UK to teach Japanese, and complete his external degree at London University. His first trip to Japan was in 1950, arriving in Kobe

Kobe

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Academic career

Having learnt Japanese during the war, Dore graduated with a degree in Japanese from London University in 1947. Dore began research in SOAS. He has also worked at the University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia

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, the Institute of Development Studies

Institute of Development Studies

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 at Sussex University, the Technical Change Centre at Sussex, the Institute for Economic growth in Delhi, Imperial College in London, Harvard University

Harvard University

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, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Honors

• Association for Asian Studies
  Association for Asian Studies
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  (AAS), 1986 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies