Ruth Glass
Ruth Glass , née Lazarus , (born June 30, 1912 in Berlin , German Reich ; † March 7, 1990 in Sutton ) was a British sociologist of German origin. She researched and published in particular on issues of urban sociology and problems of ethnic minorities in large English cities.
Ruth Lazarus studied at the University of Berlin , but continued her studies from 1932 when National Socialism grew stronger in Genoa and Prague. The Jewish woman, threatened by National Socialism, then emigrated to London , where she continued her social science studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science . From 1935 to 1941 she was married to the economist Henry William Durant, in 1942 she became the wife of the sociologist David Glass . After two years of research at Columbia University in New York and working in British regional planning, Ruth Glass first worked in 1951 and, from 1958, research director at the Center for Urban Studies at the University of London , where she also taught as a professor. Glass became particularly well-known for her work on social change in the London borough of Islington , which she named with the term gentrification , which then became a career-making term .
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Everything is out of control" . Interview by Martin Reeh with Michael Edwards in the taz of July 31, 2013, accessed on August 3, 2013
literature
- Colin Crouch : Glass, Ruth , in: Wilhelm Bernsdorf / Horst Knospe (eds.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon , Vol. 2, Enke, Stuttgart ² 1984, p. 287.
- Ruth Glass in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (English, PDF; 265 kB)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Glass, Ruth |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lazarus, Ruth (maiden name); Durant, Ruth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British sociologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 30, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin , German Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 7, 1990 |
| Place of death | Sutton |