Hagood, Margaret (1907–1963)
Hagood, Margaret (1907–1963)
American sociologist. Name variations: Margaret Loyd Jarman; Margaret Loyd Jarman Hagood or Margaret Jarman Hagood; Marney Hagood. Born Margaret Loyd Jarman, Oct 26, 1907, in Newton County, Georgia; died Aug 13, 1963, in San Diego, California; dau. of Lewis Wilson Jarman and Laura Harris (Martin) Jarman; m. Middleton Howard Hagood, 1926 (div. 1936); children: 1 dau. (b. 1927).
Taught at National Park Seminary in College Park, Maryland (early 1930s); joined Institute for Research in Social Sciences at University of North Carolina (UNC) as graduate fellow (1935), and after graduation (1937), joined sociology department at UNC and became research associate at Institute; authored Mothers of the South (1939) and Statistics for Sociologists (1941); with sociologist Harriet Herring, and photographers Marion Post and Dorothea Lange, created photographic exhibit of farming life at UNC (1940); worked at US Department of Agriculture's Bureau for Agricultural Economics (1942–52) and became head of Farm Population and Rural Life Branch of Agricultural Marketing Service (1952); became president of Population Association of America (1954) and of Rural Sociological Society (1956); retired (1962). Created "level-of-living index" for all US counties.