David Victor Glass (2 January 1911 – 23 September 1978) was an eminent English sociologist and was one of the few sociologists elected to the

Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...

. He is also one of the very few people to be elected both

Fellow of the British Academy Fellowship of the British Academy (post-nominal letters FBA) is an award granted by the British Academy to leading academics for their distinction in the humanities and social sciences. The categories are: # Fellows – scholars resident in t ...

and

Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the Fellows of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural science, natural knowledge, incl ...

. He was professor of sociology at the

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, 1948–1978.

Life

Glass was born in the East End of

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, the son of a tailor, and attended a state elementary school and

Raine's Grammar School Raine's Foundation School was a Church of England voluntary aided school based on two sites in Bethnal Green in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, England. It was situated in the north of Bethnal Green, just to the east of ''Cambridge Heath ...

. He then took a degree from the LSE in 1931. From 1932 to 1940 he was a research assistant to

William Beveridge William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge, (5 March 1879 – 16 March 1963) was a British economist and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal politician who was a Progressivism, progressive, social reformer, and eugenicist who played a central role ...

and statistician,

Arthur Bowley Sir Arthur Lyon Bowley, FBA (6 November 1869 – 21 January 1957) was an English statistician and economist who worked on economic statistics and pioneered the use of sampling techniques in social surveys. Early life Bowley's father, James Wi ...

. In 1935 he was a research assistant with

Lancelot Hogben Lancelot Thomas Hogben FRS FRSE (9 December 1895 – 22 August 1975) was a British experimental zoologist and medical statistician. He developed the African clawed frog ''(Xenopus laevis)'' as a model organism for biological research in his e ...

in the department of Social Biology at the LSE. At this time he came into contact with R. R. Kuczynski. After Hogben's departure and the closing of the department in 1937, he was heavily involved in founding the

Population Investigation Committee The Population Investigation Committee is a United Kingdom social research group founded in 1936 by the council of the British Eugenics Society. Its original members included David V. Glass, Griselda Rowntree and J.W.B. Douglas. Since the seco ...

(PIC). In 1948 he became professor.Archives.lse.ac.uk
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. Glass was succeeded in the role by Donald Gunn MacRae. He died in 1978 from a

coronary thrombosis Coronary thrombosis is defined as the formation of a blood clot inside a blood vessel of the heart. This blood clot may then restrict blood flow within the heart, leading to heart tissue damage, or a myocardial infarction, also known as a heart ...

and was survived by his wife

Ruth Glass Ruth Glass (born Ruth Adele Lazarus, 30 June 1912 – 7 March 1990) was a German-born British sociologist, urban planner and founder (in 1958) of the Centre for Urban Studies at University College London (UCL). Life She was born in Berlin on ...

, the urban sociologist.

Positions held

* Chairman,

* President, British Society for Population Studies * Honorary President, International Union for Scientific Study of Population * Member,

International Statistical Institute The International Statistical Institute (ISI) is a professional association of statisticians. At a meeting of the Jubilee Meeting of the Royal Statistical Society, statisticians met and formed the agreed statues of the International Statistical ...

* FBA, 1964 * FRS, 1971 * Foreign Honorary Member,

American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, and other ...

, 1971 * Foreign Associate,

National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, NGO, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the ...

(USA), 1973

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 Population study is an interdisciplinary field of scientific study that uses various statistical methods and models to analyse, determine, address, and predict population challenges and trends from data collected through various data collection me ...

'' and ''

British Journal of Sociology ''The British Journal of Sociology'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 1950 at the London School of Economics and Political Science. It represents the mainstream of sociological thinking and research and publishes high qua ...

''.

References

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Life

Positions held

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