Rupert B. Vance on Population |
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| Authors: | Charles B. Nam |
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| Affiliation: | Professor of sociology and research associate in the Center for the Study of Population at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Current research interests cover demographic studies of mortality and migration and stratification analysis. He has recently published a population textbook for secondary school students and is co-editing a volume on international comparisons of internal and international migration. Other sociological explorations include studying educational expansion as a geographic diffusion process and the structure of community power among non-elites. |
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| Abstract: | Rupert B. Vance, a distinguished sociologist, was a true Renaissance man whose writings spanned a variety of disciplines and touched on many issues of public as well as professional interest. As is typical of such scholars, his writings are published in a broad range of books, journals, newspapers, and other outlets. Reed and Singal (1982) brought together a selection of his writings on the South as a region, but his works in other areas have not been synthesized. The effort here is to assess his contributions to the field of population. Although no great ideas in population analysis are associated with his name, a review of his publications shows that he often was ahead of his time in dealing with issues and his influence on the field can be profoundly felt. |
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