Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture

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Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture

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…in the classic sociological study Middletown, published in 1929 by Robert S. and Helen M. Lynd. The name (shortened in 1845 from Munseetown or Munsey Town) commemorates the Munsee (Wolf) clan of Delaware Indians who once lived there. The town was founded in 1827 when Goldsmith C. Gilbert, a trader,…
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…in the classic sociological study Middletown, published in 1929 by Robert S. and Helen M. Lynd. The name (shortened in 1845 from Munseetown or Munsey Town) commemorates the Munsee (Wolf) clan of Delaware Indians who once lived there. The town was founded in 1827 when Goldsmith C. Gilbert, a trader,…
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Robert Lynd and Helen Lynd
…Muncie, Indiana, the Lynds wrote Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture (1929), innovatively treating the middle class as a tribe in the anthropological sense. Their follow-up study, Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts (1937), analyzed the social changes induced by the Great Depression of the 1930s. Although…
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…Muncie, Indiana, the Lynds wrote Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture (1929), innovatively treating the middle class as a tribe in the anthropological sense. Their follow-up study, Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts (1937), analyzed the social changes induced by the Great Depression of the 1930s. Although…
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