Kenneth C Land

Contact Info 

Location: 347 Soc-Psych

Office Phone: (919) 660-5615

Office Fax: (919) 660-5623

Email Address:  

Website: http://www.soc.duke.edu/dept/faculty/kland.html

Mailing Address: 268 Soc-Psych Box 90088

• SOCIOL 111.01, SOCIAL PROBLEMS Synopsis

  Social Sciences 311, TuTh 11:45 AM-01:00 PM

Education:

• Postdoctoral Study, Mathematical Statistics,, Columbia University, New York, New York,, 1970
• Sociology (major) and Mathematics (minor), The University of Texas at Austin, 1969
• Sociology (major) and Mathematics (minor), The University of Texas at Austin, 1966
• Sociology (major) and History (major), Texas Lutheran College, Seguin, Texas, 1964

Areas of Interest:
Mathematical Sociology,
Statistical Methods,
Demography,
Crime, Law and Deviance,
Social Indicators and Quality-of-Life Measurement

Research Summary:
I 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, I taught there and was a member of the staff of the Russell Sage Foundation for three years. I 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. I served as Chair of Sociology from January 1986 to August 1997. My 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. I have done extensive research in each of these areas and have been elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (1978), the Sociological Research Association (1981), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1992), the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (1997), and the American Society of Criminology (2004). I teach Contemporary Social Problems (SOCIOL 11), Basic Demographic Methods and Materials (SOCIOL 215), and Advanced Methods of Demographic Analysis (SOCIOL 216). My other interests include tennis, jogging (10 kilometers), and music.

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Kenneth C. Land (ed.), The Well-Being of America’s Children: Developing and Improving the Child and Youth Well-Being Index (2012,forthcoming), New York: Springer .
2. Reviews of Web-Based Social Reports, Review 1: The United Kingdom’s Social Statistics, SINET: Social Indicators Network News no. 106&107 (May-August, 2011) .
3. Keys to Happiness From 100 Prominent Experts From Around the World, SINET: Social Indicators Network News no. 105 (March, 2011) .
4. Measuring Well-Being in the Netherlands, SINET: Social Indicators Network News no. 105 (March, 2011) .
5. Michael R. Hagerty and Kenneth C. Land, Issues in Composite Index Construction: The Measurement of Overall Quality of Life, in Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality-of-Life Research (2011), pp. 181-200, New York: Spinger .