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Donald Bogue

Donald Joseph Bogue (1918–2014) was an American sociologist and demographer.

Bogue was born in Utah and raised on a farm near Independence, Missouri.^[1][2] He earned his bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of Iowa in 1939, and completed a master's degree in the same subject at Washington State College the following year.^[3][4] Between 1942 and 1946, Bogue was a statistician for the United States Navy.^[3][4] After World War II ended, Bogue authored the 1949 doctoral dissertation The Structure of the Metropolitan Community: A Study of Dominance and Subdominance under the direction of Amos Hawley at the University of Michigan.^[5][6]

Bogue began his research work in 1947, with the Scripps Foundation for Research in Population Problems at Miami University, then joined the University of Chicago in 1954, where he became a full professor in 1958 and remained for the rest of his career.^[3][4][1] He was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1956.^[7] Bogue was the president of the Population Association of America from 1963 to 1964,^[8] and founded the organization's flagship academic journal, Demography, serving as chief editor from 1964 to 1968.^[5][9]

Bogue was married to Elizabeth Mullen from 1944 to her death in 1973.^[1] He died in Dyer, Indiana, on 21 April 2014, aged 96.^[1][2] A collection of Bogue's papers is held at the University of Chicago Library.^[10]

Selected publications[edit]

• Bogue, Donald J. (1985) [1959]. The Population of the United States. Free Press.^[11]
• Bogue, Donald J. (1963). Skid Row in American Cities. University of Chicago Press.^[12]
• Burgess, Ernest W.; Bogue, Donald J., eds. (1964). Contributions to Urban Sociology. University of Chicago Press.^[13]
• Bogue, Donald J., ed. (1967). Sociological Contributions to Family Planning Research. Community and Family Study Center, University of Chicago.^[14]
• Bogue, Donald J. (1969). Principles of Demography. John Wiley and Sons.^[15]
• Bogue, Donald J., ed. (1970). Further Sociological Contributions to Family Planning Research. Community and Family Study Center, University of Chicago.^[16]
• Bogue, Donald J.; Liegel, Gregory; Kozloski, Michael (2009). Immigration, Internal Migration, and Local Mobility in the U.S. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781848444089.^[17]

References[edit]

^ Donald Bogue at the Mathematics Genealogy Project