David Glass (demographer)

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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.

Contents 1 Education 2 Positions held 3 Publications 4 References

[edit] Education

• Raine's Grammar School
• London School of Economics

[edit] 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

[edit] 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.

[edit] References

• Dictionary of National Biography
• Who was Who
• Obituary, Jewish Chronicle, Oct. 6 1978, p.32