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Kingsley Davis (August 20, 1908 – February 27, 1997) 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. ==Education and career== Davis received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and taught at Smith College, Clark University, Pennsylvania State University, Princeton University, Columbia University, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Southern California.〔(Kingsley Davis ) at Encyclopædia Britannica〕 Among his other accomplishments, Davis * served as president of the Population Association of America and the American Sociological Association * represented the United States on the United Nations Population Commission * member of the Advisory Council of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Advisory Committee on Population for the U.S. Bureau of the Census * was the first sociologist in the United States to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences (1966). Davis won the Irene B. Taeuber Award for outstanding research in demography (1978), the Common Wealth Award for distinguished work in sociology (1979), and the Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association (1982).〔(Obituary ) at Stanford News〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kingsley Davis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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