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Kenneth C Land, John Franklin Crowell Professor of Demographic Studies and Sociology

Kenneth C Land

 

Short Description of Research Approach:

Kenneth C Land
John Franklin Crowell Professor of Demographic Studies and Sociology

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Office: 347 Soc-Psych
Phone: 919-660-5615
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Fax: 919-660-5623
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Areas of Interest:

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

Selected Publications/Recent Research:

 
Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  • Yang Yang and Kenneth C. Land, Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of Repeated Cross-Section Surveys: Fixed or Random Effects?, Sociological Methods and Research, vol. 36 (Accepted, February, 2008) .
  • Kenneth C. Land, Whither Public Sociology?, Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, vol. 36 (2008) .
  • Kenneth C. Land and Vicki L. Lamb, Demography of Aging, in The Encyclopedia of Public Health, edited by H. Krisitan Heggenhougen (Accepted, 2008), Elsevier .
  • Yang Yang, Sam Schulhofer-Wohl, Wenjiang J. Fu, and Kenneth C. Land, The Intrinsic Estimator for Age-Period-Cohort Analysis: What It Is and How To Use It, American Journal of Sociology (Accepted, 2008) .
  • John P. Robinson and Kenneth C. Land, Social Indicators and the Quality of Life, in Handbook of Public Opinion Research, edited by Wolfgang Donsbach and Michael W. Traugott (Accepted, 2008), Sage .
 

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Sociology
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