Bio: (1886-1966) British sociologist and demographer. Carr-Saunders was a professor of social sciences at the University of Liverpool and director of the London School of Economics and Political Science. His The Population Problem (1922) was a historical study in demography. In this work, he explored how population growth interacts with resources, social structures, and cultural development. His ideas were influenced by earlier thinkers like Thomas Malthus, but he expanded on them by incorporating evolutionary perspectives and empirical research. He argued that population trends could not be understood purely in economic terms but had to be examined in a broader biological and social context. His book World Population (1936) was a demographic description of the World population. Carr-Saunders and P. A. Wilson co-wrote The Professions (1933), a pioneering analysis of professional groups such as doctors, lawyers, and engineers. They examined how these groups establish standards, maintain authority, and contribute to social order. This work laid the groundwork for later sociological studies of professionalization and institutional power.

Main works

The Population Problem: A Study in Human Evolution (1922);

A Survey of the Social Structure of England and Wales (1927); 

The Professions (1933); 

World Population (1936);

New Universities Overseas (1961).