Ruth Glass

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Ruth Glass (born Ruth Adele Lazarus, 1912–1990) was a German-born British sociologist.

Glass's work reflected her belief "that the purpose of sociological research was to influence government policy and bring about social change".^[1] A lasting legacy is her coining of the term 'gentrification', which she created to describe the processes by which the poor were squeezed out of parts of London as upper-class ghettos were created.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Between 1935 and 1941 she was married to Henry William Durant, the statistician and pioneer in the field of public opinion polling. She married David Victor Glass, a sociologist and demographer, in 1942.^[1]

Selected publications

Glass, Ruth Lazarus (1939). Watling: a survey of social life on a new housing estate. London: P S King.
Glass, R. (ed) (1948) The Social Background of a Plan: a Study of Middlesbrough, Preface by Max Lock, London : Routledge & Kegan Paul
Glass, R. (1955) Urban Sociology in Great Britain: a trend report, Current Sociology, IV, 4: 8-35.
Glass, Ruth Lazarus (1960). London's Newcomers: The West Indians in London. London: Centre for Urban Studies, University College.
Glass, Ruth Lazarus; Westergaard, John (1965). London's housing needs: statement of evidence to the Committee on Housing in Greater London. London: Centre for Urban Studies, University College.

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Anne Pimlott Baker "Ruth Adele Glass", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
↑ Obituary: Ruth Glass, The Times, 9 March 1990
↑ The optimism of modernity : publications

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