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American sociologist. With his wife, Helen Merrell Lynd (1896-1982), he wrote the pioneering sociological study Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture (1929)

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Robert ; and Lynd Helen Lynd
orig. Helen Merrell born Sept. 26, 1892, New Albany, Ind., U.S. died Nov. 1, 1970, Warren, Conn. born March 17, 1894, La Grange, Ill., U.S. died Jan. 30, 1982, Warren, Ohio U.S. sociologists. The Lynds taught for several decades at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College, respectively. In their collaboration on the studies Middletown (1929) and Middletown in Transition (1937), classics of sociological literature as well as popular successes, they became the first scholars to apply the methods of cultural anthropology to the study of a modern Western city (Muncie, Ind.)
Robert Staughton; and Lynd Helen Lynd
orig. Helen Merrell born Sept. 26, 1892, New Albany, Ind., U.S. died Nov. 1, 1970, Warren, Conn. born March 17, 1894, La Grange, Ill., U.S. died Jan. 30, 1982, Warren, Ohio U.S. sociologists. The Lynds taught for several decades at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College, respectively. In their collaboration on the studies Middletown (1929) and Middletown in Transition (1937), classics of sociological literature as well as popular successes, they became the first scholars to apply the methods of cultural anthropology to the study of a modern Western city (Muncie, Ind.)