Kingsley Davis
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American sociologist and demographer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Kingsley Davis was an internationally recognized American sociologist and demographer. He was identified by the American Philosophical Society as one of the most outstanding social scientists of the twentieth century, and was a Hoover Institution senior research fellow.
Kingsley Davis's Published Works
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Published Works
- Some Principles of Stratification (1945) (997)
- Social Structure and Fertility: An Analytic Framework (1956) (890)
- The World Demographic Transition (1945) (340)
- The Population of India and Pakistan (1951) (291)
- INTERMARRIAGE IN CASTE SOCIETIES1 (1941) (270)
- The Urbanization of the Human Population (1965) (269)
- The Origin and Growth of Urbanization in the World (1955) (201)
- The Myth of Functional Analysis as a Special Method in Sociology and Anthropology (1959) (154)
- The Sociology of Parent-Youth Conflict* (1940) (146)
- Urbanization and the Development of Pre-Industrial Areas (1954) (141)
- Wives and work: the sex role revolution and its consequences. (1984) (126)
- The Sociology of Prostitution (1937) (124)
- Institutional patterns favoring high fertility in underdeveloped areas (1955) (115)
- Mental Hygiene and the Class Structure (1938) (106)
- Final Note on a Case of Extreme Isolation (1947) (105)
- World urbanization, 1950-1970 (1969) (75)
- Extreme Social Isolation of a Child (1940) (74)
- The migrations of human populations. (1974) (61)
- Urbanization in Latin America. (1946) (59)
- Jealousy and Sexual Property (1936) (58)
- Family structure in Jamaica : the social context of reproduction (1962) (57)
- Reproductive Institutions and the Pressure for Population (1937) (57)
- The pattern of mortality change in Latin America (1969) (55)
- Below-Replacement Fertility in Industrial Societies: Causes, Consequences, Policies. (1988) (55)
- Contemporary Marriages: Comparative Perspectives on a Changing Institution (1987) (54)
- Resources, environment, and population : present knowledge, future options (1991) (50)
- Social science approaches to international migration. (1988) (49)
- Low Fertility in Evolutionary Perspective (1986) (49)
- A Conceptual Analysis of Stratification (1942) (48)
- Human Fertility in India (1946) (43)
- Illegitimacy and the Social Structure (1939) (42)
- Population and Resources: Fact and Interpretation (1990) (34)
- Influences Affecting Fertility in Urban and Rural Latin America (1968) (30)
- Some Principles of Stratification: A Critical Analysis: Reply (1953) (28)
- Age Relations and Public Policy in Advanced Industrial Societies (1981) (27)
- Adolescence and the Social Structure (1944) (24)
- Asia's Cities: Problems and Options (1975) (23)
- Zero population growth: the goal and the means. (1973) (23)
- STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF KINSHIP (1937) (23)
- The World's Metropolitan Areas (1960) (22)
- Kingsley Davis on Reproductive Institutions and the Pressure for Population (1997) (22)
- The Child and the Social Structure (1940) (21)
- Immigration from the Western Hemisphere (1949) (17)
- Latin America's Multiplying Peoples (1947) (15)
- General theory of population (1973) (15)
- India and Pakistan: The Demography of Partition (1949) (15)
- The Forms of Illegitimacy (1939) (15)
- Below-Replacement Fertility in Industrial Societies: Causes, Consequences, Policies (1988) (14)
- CONVENTIONAL VERSUS METROPOLITAN DATA IN THE INTERNATIONAL STUDY OF URBANIZATION (1958) (14)
- Cities: their origin, growth, and human impact;: Readings from Scientific American (1973) (12)
- Statistical Perspective on Marriage and Divorce (1950) (11)
- Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Box-Car Bertha.@@@The Other Half: The Autobiography of a Tramp.@@@The Road: In Search of America. (1939) (11)
- The world's most expensive survey (1987) (11)
- World Urbanization 1950-1970; Vol. 1. Basic Data for Cities, Countries and Regions (1971) (10)
- Demographic Fact and Policy in India (1944) (9)
- Future migration into Latin America. (1947) (9)
- The Effect of Outmigration on Regions of Origin (1977) (9)
- Colonial Expansion and Urban Diffusion in the Americas (1960) (9)
- The pattern of puerto rican fertility (1951) (9)
- Urbanization in Latin America. (1946) (9)
- Population policy and the theory of reproductive motivation (1977) (8)
- Basic data for cities, countries, and regions (1969) (7)
- World Urbanization 1950-1970, Vol. II: Analysis of Trends, Relationships and Development (1973) (6)
- The climax of population growth--past and future perspective. (1970) (6)
- Encyclopaedia Sexualis: A Comprehensive Encyclopaedia-Dictionary of the Sexual Sciences. (1936) (6)
- The Population of India (1943) (6)
- Population and Progress in Puerto Rico (1951) (5)
- The Unpredicted Pattern of Population Change (1956) (5)
- Population and Public Opinion – The Need for Basic Research (1963) (5)
- World Urbanization 1950-1970. Vol. 1: Basic Data for Cities, Countries and Regions (1970) (5)
- Puerto Rico: A Crowded Island (1953) (5)
- Differential fertility in Puerto Rico (1951) (5)
- The Political Impact of New Population Trends (1958) (5)
- A Sociological and Statistical Analysis (1944) (5)
- Appraisal of vital statistics in Latin America. (1964) (5)
- Book Review:Syphilis, Gonorrhea and the Public Health. Nels A. Nelson, Gladys L. Crain (1940) (5)
- The place of Latin America in world demographic history. (1964) (5)
- Analysis of trends, relationships, and development (1972) (5)
- Declining birth rates and growing populations (1984) (4)
- Puerto Rico's population problem; research and policy. (1948) (4)
- The Adolescent and His Family. (1953) (4)
- Anthropology: An Introduction to Primitive Culture.@@@Siam: 2nd Rural Economic Survey, 1934-1935.@@@The Irish Countryman: An Anthropological Study. (1937) (3)
- The history of birth and death. (1986) (3)
- Recent Population Trends in the New World: An Over-all View (1958) (3)
- The Population of India and Pakistan@@@Statistical Atlas of Bombay State@@@Census of Ceylon, 1946: Vol. I, Part I. General Report (1952) (3)
- The Application of Science to Personal Relations: A Critique of the Family Clinic Idea (1936) (2)
- Future Demographic Growth of the San-Francisco Bay Area (1964) (2)
- Book Review:The Status System of a Modern Community. W. Lloyd Warner, Paul S. Lunt (1943) (2)
- Political sociology : an essay and bibliography with special reference to the development of research in the United States of America and Western Europe (1957) (2)
- Modern American society : readings in the problems of order and change (1949) (2)
- Contemporary Marriage: Comparative Perspective in a Changing Institution (1990) (2)
- Population and Welfare in Industrial Societies (1960) (1)
- Girls on City Streets: A Study of 1400 Cases of Rape. (1936) (1)
- MISCELLANEOUS: Environment and Education: A Symposium Held in Connection with the Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of the University of Chicago. Ernest W. Burgess, W. Lloyd Warner, Franz Alexander, and Margaret Mead (1942) (1)
- World Urbanization 1950-1970. Volume II: Analysis of Trends, Relationships and Developments. (1974) (1)
- World Population in Transition (1945) (1)
- Brazil: People and Institutions.T. Lynn Smith (1946) (1)
- Population control cannot be painless. (1982) (1)
- California's twenty million : research contributions to population policy (1976) (1)
- ASIA: Emigrant Communities in South China. A Study of Overseas Migration and Its Influence on Standards of Living and Social Change. Ta Chen (1940) (1)
- TA CHEN. Population in Modern China. Pp. ix, 126. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1946. $2.50 (1947) (1)
- OTHER: World Population and Production: Trends and Outlook. W. S. Woytinsky and E. S. Woytinsky (1955) (0)
- Human society / by Kingsley Davis (2004) (0)
- Book Review:The Changing Shape of Metropolitan America: Deconcentration Since 1920. Amos H. Hawley (1958) (0)
- SCHECHTMAN, JOSEPH B. Population Transfers in Asia. Pp. 149. New York: Hallsby Press, 1949. $1.50 (1950) (0)
- CLAGUE, EWAN, WALTER J. COUPER and E. WIGHT BAKKE. After the Shutdown. Pp. 153. New Haven: Institute of Human Relations, Yale University, 1934 (1934) (0)
- The Myth of Functional Analysis as a Special Method in Sociology and Anthropology (1959) (0)
- Population and Food Planning in India . Baljit Singh. (1949) (0)
- Basic Data for Cities, Countries, and Regions. Volume I of World Urbanization, 1950-1970. (1971) (0)
- Response : Family Planning and Other Population Controls (1968) (0)
- Book Review:The Children of Hari: A Study of the Nimar Balahis in the Central Provinces of India. Stephen Fuchs (1952) (0)
- The Population of Jamaica@@@Jamaica and the New Order, 1827-1847 (1957) (0)
- Response : Obstacles to Population Control (1968) (0)
- Of Societies and Men. Caryl P. Haskins. New York: Norton, 1951. 282 pp. $4.50. (1951) (0)
- Foreword (1945) (0)
- Book Review:A Demographic Survey of the British Colonial Empire, Vol. III: The West Indian and American Territories. R. R. Kuczynski (1955) (0)
- Urban Studies Research Centers (1970) (0)
- Youth in the Depression@@@Money@@@The Farm Business@@@Friends or Enemies?@@@Crime@@@Strikes@@@Business and Government@@@Jobs or the Dole?@@@You and Machines (1935) (0)
- Asia and world population (1974) (0)
- Low Fertility in Perspective (1988) (0)
- SUNDARAM, LANKA. India's Armies and Their Costs. Pp. 256. Bombay: Avanti Prakashan, 1946. Rs. 7/8 (1947) (0)
- SOROKIN, PITIRIM A. The Crisis of Our Age. Pp. 338. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1941. $3.50 (1942) (0)
- GROVES, ERNEST R. Marriage. Rev. Ed. Pp. xv, 671. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1941. $3.20 (1941) (0)
- HIRSCHFELD, MAGNUS. (Translated from the German by L. P. Green.) Men and Women: The World Journey of a Sexologist. Pp. 325. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1935. $4.00 (1935) (0)
- Facts and Theories of Psychoanalysis.@@@Mind Explorers.@@@Men Against Madness.@@@Sexual Pathology: A Study of Derangements of the Sexual Instinct. (1940) (0)
- Urban Studies Research Centers (1969) (0)
- All These People: The Nation's Human Resources in the South.Rupert B. Vance (1946) (0)
- Modern American Society: Readings in the Problems of Order and Change (1950) (0)
- VALUES, POPULATION, AND THE SUPERNATURAL: A CRITIQUE (1950) (0)
- Population growth and policy in the less developed world. (1978) (0)
- Palmer, Robert R., Bell I. Wiley, and William R. Keast. The U. S. Army in World War II, Vol. II: The Procurement and Training of Ground Combat Troops. Pp. xi, 696. Washington: Historical Division, Department of the Army, 1948. $4.50 (1950) (0)
- HART, HORNELL and ELLA B. Personality and the Family. Pp. xiii, 381. Boston: D. C. Heath & Co., 1935. $2.80 (1935) (0)
- PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: The Prevalence of People. Marston Bates (1956) (0)
- Self-Analysis.Karen Horney (1943) (0)
- The Plans of Men.Leonard W. Doob (1941) (0)
- BOSSARD, JAMES H. S. Marriage and the Child. Pp. xv, 178. Philadelphia: Uni versity of Pennsylvania Press, 1940. $2.00 (1940) (0)
- Prostitution in the Modern World.@@@Sterile Sun. (1936) (0)
- Family planning and other population controls. (1968) (0)
- Review: Population Problems by Warren S. Thompson (1943) (0)
- VISHER, STEPHEN SARGENT. Scientists Starred, 1903-1943, in "American Men of Science." Pp. xxiii, 556. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1947. $4.50 (1948) (0)
- The Climax of World Population Growth (1973) (0)
- A Structural Analysis of Kinship: Prolegomena to the Sociology of Kinship (1980) (0)
- Correspondence: obstacles to population control. (1968) (0)
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