Kingsley Davis
Kingsley Davis (August 20, 1908- February 27, 1997) was an American sociologist and demographer. He contributed to studies of American and worldwide societies, and coined the terms "population explosion" and "zero population growth".
Books by Kingsley Davis
- Human Society (MacMillan, 1949)
- The Population of India and Pakistan (Princeton University Press, 1951)
- World Urbanization 1950-1970 (Berkeley: Institute of International Studies, 1969, 1972)
- Cities: Their Origin, Growth and Human Impact (W.H. Freeman, 1973).
External links
- Kingsley Davis at Encyclopædia Britannica
- Obituary at Stanford News
- Biography at the American Sociological Association
- Biography from Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
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