Kenneth C. Land
Professor
Duke University
USA
Duke University
USA
He received my Ph.D. in sociology and mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1969. After a year of postdoctoral study in mathematical statistics at Columbia University in New York City, He taught there and was a member of the staff of the Russell Sage Foundation for three years. He then was successively a member of the faculties of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and the University of Texas at Austin before joining the Duke Sociology Department as Chairman in 1986. He served as Chair of Sociology from January 1986 to August 1997. His main research interests are contemporary social trends and quality-of-life measurement, social problems, demography, criminology, organizations, and mathematical and statistical models and methods for the study of social and demographic processes.
Quality-of-life measurement, social problems, demography, criminology, organizations