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Kingsley Davis - A Biography and Selections from His Writings (Paperback)
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Kingsley Davis - A Biography and Selections from His Writings (Paperback)
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Kingsley Davis (1908-1997) was one of the pioneers in social
demography, and was particularly identified with the theory of the
demographic transition. This holds that the process of
industrialization first causes mortality to decline, leading to a
substantial rate of population growth and only later causes
fertility to fall, leading eventually to the cessation of
population growth. Kingsley Davis is especially remembered for his
arresting and forceful critique of family-planning programs
intended to achieve zero population growth. Before he devoted his
major attention to social demography, Davis had distinguished
himself through influential articles on the structure of family and
kinship, including the topics of jealousy and sexual property, the
sociology of prostitution, and illegitimacy. He had an early
interest in structural-functional analysis, which resulted in his
famous and controversial article on stratification, co-authored
with Wilbert Moore, and his equally famous presidential address to
the American Sociological Association in 1959. David Heer's
biography of Kingsley Davis is based on material contained in the
Kingsley Davis Archive at the Hoover Institution Library at
Stanford University, the Kingsley Davis graduate file at Harvard
University, the interview of Kingsley Davis by Jean van der Tak in
Demographic Destinies (1990), and David Heer's personal
relationship with Kingsley Davis. The book also contains thirty of
the most important writings by Kingsley Davis. These were chosen,
in part, for the number of citations received in the Cumulative
Social Science Citation Index, and in part to ensure that readers
would be able to assess the continuity of Kingsley Davis's ideas at
all stages of his career.
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