Kingsley Davis
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Born | University of Texas | August 20, 1908
Doctoral advisor | W. Lloyd Warner |
Kingsley Davis (August 20, 1908 – February 27, 1997) was an internationally recognized
Education and career
Davis received his
Among his other accomplishments, Davis
- served as president of the Population Association of America and the American Sociological Association
- represented the United States on the United Nations Population Commission
- member of the Advisory Council of the Bureau of the Census
- was an elected member of both the American Philosophical Society (1960) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1964).[2][3]
- was the first sociologist in the United States to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences(1966).
Davis won the Irene B. Taeuber Award for outstanding research in demography (1978), the Common Wealth Award for distinguished work in sociology (1979), and the Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association (1982).[4] In 1953 he was elected as a
Research
Davis led and conducted major studies of societies in Europe, South America, Africa and Asia, coined the term "
Davis had several children [
As a demographer, Davis was internationally recognized for his expertise in world population growth and resources, the history and theory of international migration, world urbanization, demographic transition and population policy.[9]
Published works
Kingsley Davis was a prolific scholar who published numerous research articles, book chapters and books.
Books
- Davis, Kingsley (1935). Youth in the Depression. University of Chicago Press.
- —— (1949). Human Society. MacMillan.
- —— (1949). Modern Society. Rinehart.
- —— (1951). The Population of India and Pakistan. Princeton University Press.
- —— (1960). A Structural Analysis of Kinship. Arno.
- —— (1961). Population Policy and Economic Development. Stanford Research Institute.
- —— (1965). The Population Impact on Children in the World's Agrarian Countries. Institute of International Studies.
- —— Stylkes, Frederick G. (1971). California's Twenty Million. University of California.
- —— (1973). Cities: Their Origin, Growth and Human Impact. Freeman. ISBN 9780716708704.
- —— (1972). World Urbanization 1950–1970. Institute of International Studies.
Chapters
- —— Kahl, Joseph A. (1959). "Introduction". The American Class Structure. Rinehart.
- —— (1961). Turner, R. (ed.). India's Urban Future. University of Michigan.
- —— (1965). "The Urbanization of the Human Population". Cities. Scientific American Book. Knopf.
Edited volumes
- Davis, Kingsley, ed. (1945). World Population in Transition. American Academy of Political and Social Science.
- ——, ed. (1987). Below Replacement Fertility in Industrial Societies. Cambridge University Press.
- Davis, Kingsley; Bernstam, Mikhail; Sellers, Helen M., eds. (1989). Population and Resources in a Changing World. Morrison Institute for Population and Resource Studies.
- Davis, Kingsley; Bernstam, Mikhail, eds. (1991). Resources, Environment, and Population. Oxford University Press.
Other writing
In the popular press, Davis' work appeared in "
In 1957, Davis predicted that population of the world would reach six billion by the year 2000. He was remarkably close; that population figure was reached in October 1999.[13]
References
- ^ a b c Kingsley Davis at Encyclopædia Britannica
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-12-01.
- ^ "Kingsley Davis". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2022-12-01.
- ^ a b Obituary Archived 2012-08-05 at the Wayback Machine at Stanford News
- JSTOR 2681662.
- ^ Biography Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine from Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
- ^ Sovani, N. V. “The Analysis of ‘Over-Urbanization.’” Economic Development and Cultural Change 12, no. 2 (January 1, 1964): 113–122.
- ^ Davis, Kingsley, and Hilda Hertz Golden. “Urbanization and the Development of Pre-Industrial Areas.” Economic Development and Cultural Change 3, no. 1 (October 1954): 6–26.
- ^ a b "Kingsley Davis, Hoover fellow, demographer, sociologist, dies at age 88". Stanford News Service. Stanford University. 4 March 1997. Archived from the original on 5 August 2012. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
- ^ George J. Stolnitz (1955) Population Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1. pp. 24–55
- ^ Davis, K, and Moore, W. E. "Some principles of stratification." American Sociological Review, 10 (2), 242–249
- ^ De Maio, F. Health & Social Theory. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, 29.
- ^ Bookrags.com
Further reading
- David Heer and Kingsley Davis. "Kingsley Davis: A Biography and Selections from His Works" (Transaction Publishers, 2005)
- —— (July 1951). Population and Progress in Puerto Rico. Council on Foreign Relations.
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External links
- Kingsley Davis at Encyclopædia Britannica
- Obituary Archived 2012-08-05 at the Wayback Machine at Stanford News
- Biography at the American Sociological Association
- Biography from Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society