Robert Staughton Lynd

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Robert Staughton Lynd (1892 - 1970) was an American sociologist born in New Albany, Indiana. He was a professor of sociology at Columbia University, New York City.

Robert and Helen Lynd are best known for writing the groundbreaking "Middletown" studies of Muncie, Indiana - Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture (1929) and Middletown in Transition (1937)^[1], which are classics of American sociology. Muncie was the first community to be systematically examined by sociologists in the United States.

Staughton Lynd, an historian noted for anti-war, civil rights and community activism, was one of two children of Robert Staughton Lynd and Helen Lynd.

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• Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture (1929)
• "The Consumer Becomes a 'Problem'", Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 173, The Ultimate Consumer. A Study in Economic Illiteracy (May, 1934), pp. 1-6
• Middletown in Transition (1937)
• Knowledge for What? The Place of the Social Sciences in American Culture, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press (1939)

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[edit] External links

• "Series 1 - Robert & Helen Lynd", Staughton Lynd Collection, Kent State University
• Center for Middletown Studies, Ball State University
• Middletown Studies Collection and Digital Archives, Ball State University Archives and Special Collections Research Center