Davis, Kingsley, 1908-1997

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Birth 1908-08-20
Death 1997-02-27
Americans,
English,

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American sociologist.

From the description of Kingsley Davis papers, 1926-1981. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872020

Biographical Note

1908 August 20 Born, Tuxedo, Texas 1930 A.B. in English, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 1932 M.A. in Philosophy, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 1933 M.A. in Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1934 1936 Instructor, Sociology, Smith College, Massachusetts 1936 Ph.D., Sociology, Harvard University 1936 1937 Assistant Professor, Sociology, Clark University, Massachusetts 1937 1942 Associate Professor and Chairman, Pennsylvania State University 1942 1944 Visiting Research Associate, Office of Population Research, Princeton University, New Jersey, and Chairman, Pennsylvania State University 1942 1948 Associate Professor, Anthropology and Sociology, Princeton University 1944 1945 Associate Professor, Public Affairs, Princeton University 1944 1948 Research Associate, Princeton University 1948 1955 Professor, Sociology, Graduate Faculty of Political Science, Columbia University, New York 1949 Author, Modern American Society: Readings in the Problems of Order and Change 1950 Author, Corrientes Demográficas Mundiales 1951 Author, The Population of India and Pakistan 1955 1970 Professor, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley 1956 1977 Chairman, International Population and Urban Research, University of California, Berkeley 1958 Author, A Crowding Hemisphere: Population Change in the Americas 1961 1963 Chairman, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley 1963 Author, Future Demographic Growth of the San Francisco Bay Area 1964 Author, The Place of Latin America in World Demographic History 1969 Author, World Urbanization, 1950-1970 1973 Author, Cities: Their Origin, Growth, and Human Impact: Readings from Scientific American 1980 Author, A Structural Analysis of Kinship: Prolegomena to the Sociology of Kinship 1970 1976 Ford Professor, Sociology and Comparative Studies, University of California, Berkeley 1976 1977 Ford Professor, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley (recalled) 1977 1992 Distinguished Professor, Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles 1985 Author, Contemporary Marriage: Comparative Perspectives on a Changing Institution 1987 Author, Below-Replacement Fertility in Industrial Society: Causes, Consequences, Policies 1989 Author, Population and Resources in a Changing World: Current Readings 1991 Author, Resources, Environment, and Population: Present Knowledge, Future Options 1981 1992 Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University 1992 1997 Emeritus, Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University 1997 February 27 Died

From the guide to the Kingsley Davis Papers, 1926-1981, (Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace)

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