Robert Staughton Lynd

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Robert Staughton Lynd


Born
in New Albany, Indiana, The United States
September 26, 1892

Died
November 01, 1970

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Robert Staughton Lynd was an American sociologist and professor at Columbia University, New York City. Robert and his wife 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), which are classics of American sociology. Muncie was the first community to be systematically examined by sociologists in the United States. ...more

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Middletown: A Study in Mode...

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Knowledge for What: The Pla...

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“The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.”
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