Robert Staughton Lynd
Robert Staughton Lynd was an American sociologist and professor at Columbia University, New York City. He is best known for conducting the first Middletown studies of Muncie, Indiana, with his wife, Helen Lynd; as the co-author of Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture (1929) and Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts (1937); and a pioneer in the use of social surveys. He was also the author of Knowledge for What?
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- Princeton UniversityColumbia UniversityUnion Theological SeminaryThe New School for Social Research
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- 📖 Seymour Martin Lipset📖 Immanuel Wallerstein
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1892
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