主讲人 | Kenneth C. Land, John Franklin Crowell Professor of Sociology Department of Sociology, |
题目 | Heterogeneity in the Strehler-Mildvan General Theory of Mortality and Aging |
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地点 | 北京大学中国经济研究中心万众楼小教室 |
语言 | 英文 |
演讲简介 |
Ken Land is the John Franklin Crowell Professor of Sociology and Demography at Duke University, where he also holds the titles of Director of the Center for Population Health and Aging and Senior Fellow in the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development.
Ken is well known for his scholarship and research in the development and application of mathematical and statistical models in sociology, demography, criminology, and social indicators/quality-of-life studies. He is the author or co-author of over 150 books, journal articles and chapters on these topics. His research is widely cited. According to the Institute for Scientific Information, Ken is one of the 400 most widely cited U.S. social scientists today.
Ken currently serves as Editor of Demography, the leading research journal for demographers. Ken has been elected a Fellow/Member of five professional societies: the American Statistical Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Sociological Research Association, the American Society of Criminology, and the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies. In 1997, he received the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award for distinguished contributions to the field of sociological methodology from the Methodology Section of the American Sociological Association.
