Ruth Glass (born Ruth Adele Lazarus, 1912–1990) was a German-born British sociologist.
Glass's work reflected her belief "that the purpose of sociological
research was to influence government policy and bring about social
change".
A lasting legacy is her coining of the term 'gentrification',
which she created to describe the processes by which the poor were
squeezed out of parts of London as upper-class ghettos were created.
Between 1935 and 1941 she was married to Henry William Durant, the statistician and pioneer in the field of public opinion polling. She married David Victor Glass, a sociologist and demographer, in 1942.
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