Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts
Study
By: Robert S. Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd
Date: 1937
Source: Lynd, Robert S., and Helen Merrell Lynd. Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1937, 221–223, 228.
About the Authors: Robert Staughton Lynd (1892–1970) was born in New Albany, Indiana, and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. A graduate of Princeton, Lynd worked as an editor before entering Union Theological Seminary. Helen Merrell (1899–1982) was born in La Grange, Illinois, and attended Wellesley College. She taught in girls' schools in New York, where she met Robert Lynd. They were married in 1922. Together they published Middletown: A Study in American Culture (1929) and Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts (1937). Robert became a professor of sociology at Columbia University, and Helen taught at nearby Sarah...
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