| LC control no. | n 80015377 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Duncan, Otis Dudley |
| Birth date | 1921-12-02 |
| Death date | 2004-11-16 |
| Place of birth | Nocona (Tex.) |
| Place of death | Santa Barbara (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Sociology |
| Profession or occupation | Sociologists |
| Found in | Spengler, J. J. Population theory and ... 1956 Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1921) Wikipedia, February 28, 2023: (Otis Dudley Duncan (December 2, 1921 in Nocona, Texas - November 16, 2004 in Santa Barbara, California) was "the most important quantitative sociologist in the world in the latter half of the 20th century" according to sociologist Leo Goodman; was instrumental in transforming mainstream American sociology into a quantitatively based empirical social science in the second half of the twentieth century. His key scholarly contributions include the introduction of path analysis to sociology, the measurement of occupational socioeconomic standing with an index, the study of intergenerational occupational mobility, the spatial analysis of residential patterns, the application and advancement of log-linear models and Rasch models for categorical social science data, and a landmark treatise on social measurement; was an elected member of the United States National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis%5FDudley%5FDuncan> |
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