Kurt Bernd Mayer

Kurt Bernd Mayer (also Kurt B. Mayer , born September 6, 1916 in Zurich , Switzerland ; † September 13, 2006 in the USA ) was a Swiss-American sociologist .

Life

Family and education

Kurt Bernd Mayer, son of Salomon Charles Mayer and his wife Anna née Hirsch, passed the federal Matura at the Cantonal High School in Zurich in 1935 . Mayer then studied economics at the University of Zurich until 1939 , interrupted by a study visit to the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1936 and 1937. Kurt Bernd Mayer obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Columbia University in 1951 .

Kurt Bernd Mayer married on March 28, 1942 Dr. Elizabeth Meyer. This marriage resulted in the children Charles David, Eva Marion and David Henry. He died in September 2006 a week after he turned 90.

Professional background

After various activities, Kurt Bernd Mayer began teaching at the New School for Social Research in New York City in 1947 . In addition, Mayer was employed as a sociology instructor at Rutgers University from 1948 . In 1953 he followed an appointment as Assistant Professor of Sociology at Brown University in Providence , in 1953 he was promoted to associate professor , in 1956 to full professor , in 1957 he was made head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. In 1963 he held a visiting professorship at the Australian National University , and in the following year he conducted research at the University of Bern as a Guggenheim fellow . In 1966 he moved to Switzerland, where he was appointed full professor of sociology at the University of Bern, and in 1971 he retired .

The concerning his specialty produce passed through basic treatises Kurt Bernd Mayer became a Fellow of the American Sociological Association and a member of the Population Association of America, the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, the American Association of University Professors and the Swiss Sociological Association elected .

Fonts

• The Population of Switzerland. Columbia University Press, New York, 1952
• Economic Development and Population Growth in Rhode Island. Brown University Press, Providence, 1953
• together with Sidney Goldstein: Migration and Economic Development in Rhode Island. Brown University Press, Providence, 1958
• together with Sidney Goldstein: The First Two Years: Problems of Small Firm Growth and Survival. Small Business Administration, Washington, DC, 1961
• Metropolitanization and population change in Rhode Island. in: RI State Planning section, pub., no.3, Rhode Island Development Council, Planning Division, Providence, 1961
• Are there still social classes in America? in: Swiss journal of economics and statistics, Vol. 99, Lang, Bern, 1963, pp. 158–171.
• Introduction to population science. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, 1972 ISBN 3-1700-1102-2
• American studies on the power structure of the community. in: Erich Gruner , Beat Junker , Peter Gilg , Richard Reich: History and political science: Festschrift for Erich Gruner on his 60th birthday, Francke, Bern, 1975, pp. 329–361.
• The Jewish population of Switzerland as reflected in the 1970 census. Swiss Association of Israelites 1975, Zurich, 1975
• together with Walter Frederick Buckley: Social Stratification: An Introduction. in: SOZ Flexibles Taschenbuch, Enke, Stuttgart, 1976

literature

• Read Bain: Sociology: introductory readings. Lippincott, Chicago, 1962, p. 178 ff.
• Who's Who in America: a biographical dictionary of notable living men and women. : volume 33 (1964-1965). Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1964, p. 1311.
• Allen G Debus, Marquis Who's Who, Inc .: World who's who in science: a biographical dictionary of notable scientists from antiquity to the present, volume 2. Marquis-Who's Who, Inc., Chicago, 1968, p. 1135.
• RR Bowker Company: American Book Publishing Record. Bowker, New York, 1970, p. 208.
• Stichting Plurale Samenlevingen: Plural Societies, volume 10. Foundation for the Study of Plural Societies, The Hague, 1978, p. 120.
• Margret Funke-Schmitt-Rink , Ernst Maxim Wallner (Ed.): Social stratification and social mobility. in: Sociology of the Present, 6., Quelle and Meyer, Heidelberg, 1980, ISBN 3-4940-0906-6 , p. 145.
• Bernhard vom Brocke : Population science , quo vadis? Possibilities and problems of a history of population science in Germany: with a systematic bibliography. Leske + Budrich, Opladen, 1998, ISBN 3-8100-2070-2 , pp. 432, 444.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kurt B. Mayer (September 6, 1916 - September 13, 2006). Retrieved April 3, 2016 .