Margaret Jarman Hagood

Margaret Jarman Hagood
Born
Margaret Loyd Jarman

(1907-10-26)October 26, 1907
Newton County, Georgia, U.S.
DiedAugust 13, 1963(1963-08-13) (aged 55)
San Diego, California, U.S.
NationalityUSA
Alma mater
Scientific career
Institutions
Doctoral advisorHoward W. Odum

Margaret Jarman Hagood (October 26, 1907 – August 13, 1963) was an American sociologist and demographer who "helped steer sociology away from the armchair and toward the calculator".[1] She wrote the books Mothers of the South (1939) and Statistics for Sociologists (1941), and later became president of the Population Association of America and of the Rural Sociological Society.

  1. ^ Eldridge, Hope T. (January 1964), "Margaret Jarman Hagood (1907–1963)", Population Index, 30 (1), Office of Population Research: 30–32, JSTOR 2732172.