David Glass (demographer)
- David Glass (demographer)
Professor David Victor Glass (2 January 1911 - 23 September 1978) was a British demographer and one of the very few people to be elected both FBA and FRS. He was professor of sociology at the London School of Economics, 1948-1978.
His wife was Ruth Glass.
Education
* Raine's Grammar School
* London School of Economics
Positions held
* Chairman, Population Investigation Committee
* President, British Society for Population Studies
* Honorary President, International Union for Scientific Study of Population
* Member, International Statistical Institute
* FBA, 1964
* FRS, 1971
* Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy Arts and Sciences, 1971
* Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences (USA), 1973
Publications
* The Town in a Changing World, 1935
* The Struggle for Population, 1936
* Population Policies and Movements in Europe, 1940
* (ed) Introduction to Malthus, 1953
* (ed) Social Mobility in Britain, 1954
* (with Eugene Grebenik) The Trend and Pattern of Fertility in Great Britain, 1954
* (ed) The University Teaching of Social Sciences: Demography, 1957
* Latin American Seminar on Population: Report, 1958
* Society: Approaches and Problems for Study, 1962 (co-ed)
* Differential Fertility, Ability and Educational Objectives, 1962
* (ed jtly), Population in History, 1965
* (ed jtly) Population and Social Change, 1972
* Numbering the People, 1973
* (with P. Taylor) Population and Emigration, 1976
He was an editor of the journals Population Studies and British Journal of Sociology.
References
* Dictionary of National Biography
* Who was Who
* Obituary, Jewish Chronicle, Oct. 6 1978, p.32
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