Kingsley Davis
Kingsley Davis (born August 20, 1908 in Tuxedo , Jones County , Texas , † February 27, 1997 in Stanford , California ) was an American sociologist . It is considered a classic of population science . Davis was the 49th president of the American Sociological Association .
life and work
Davis studied English, Philosophy and Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts . In 1936 he was influenced by his Talcott Parsons work A structural analysis of kinship; prolegomena to the sociology of kinship to Ph.D. PhD in sociology. He then taught at various US universities. Since 1960 he was a member of the American Philosophical Society . In 1964 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1966 to the National Academy of Sciences . Since 1955 he was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley . He retired in 1977 , but taught and researched at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace in Stanford until 1992 .
Davis researched population trends in different regions of the world. He coined the term population explosion .
Web links
- Kingsley Davis in "50 Classics of Sociology" (University of Graz)
- Kingsley Davis in the Encyclopedia Britannica
Individual evidence
- ^ Member History: Kingsley Davis. American Philosophical Society, accessed July 7, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Davis, Kingsley |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American sociologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 20, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tuxedo (Texas) , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 27, 1997 |
| Place of death | Stanford, California , USA |