Fecundidad en América Latina: perspectivas sociológicas, 1968 (08-09-2015)

J. Mayone Stycos was an early pioneer in the development of the field of population studies. Born in 1927, he graduated from Princeton in 1947 with a BA (honors) in Economics. His senior thesis, “The Spartan Greeks of Bridgetown” was published as three articles in the Journal, Common Ground. The next few years were spent as a doctoral candidate in Sociology at Columbia University, where as Research Analyst at the Bureau of Applied Social Research he specialized in survey methodology. His doctoral committee was composed of Kingsley Davis, Herbert Hyman, Abram Kardiner, Paul Lazarsfeld, and Robert Merton. In this period, he also served as Field Director for an island-wide fertility survey in Puerto Rico.