Helen Lynd
American sociologist and social philosopher
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- PhD Sociology Columbia University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Helen Merrell Lynd was an American sociologist, social philosopher, educator, and author. She is best known for conducting the first Middletown studies of Muncie, Indiana, with her husband, Robert Staughton Lynd; as the coauthor of Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture and Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts ; and a pioneer in the use of social surveys. She was also the author of England in the 1880s: Toward a Social Basis for Freedom , Shame and the Search for Identity , and essays on academic freedom. In addition to writing and research, Lynd was a lecturer at Vassar College, and a professor at Sarah Lawrence College from 1929 to 1964.
Helen Lynd's Published Works
Published Works
- Middletown : a study in American culture (1956) (412)
- Middletown : a study in contemporary American culture (350)
- Middletown in Transition. (1937) (262)
- Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts (1937) (180)
- Identity and Reality. (1961) (28)
- England in the Eighteen Eighties Toward a Social Basis for Freedom (1945) (12)
- Field Work In College Education (1945) (8)
- The Nature of Historical Objectivity (1950) (7)
- An empirical study of child logic. (3)
- Middletown Fifty Years After@@@Middletown: A Study in American Culture.@@@Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts. (1980) (3)
- Alienation: Man's fate and man's hope (1961) (2)
- The Quest for Identity.@@@On Shame and the Search for Identity. (1958) (0)
- Book Review:Mirrors and Masks: The Search for Identity. Anselm L. Strauss (1960) (0)
- Experience in Life Itself: Field Work in College Education (1947) (0)
- Journalism—Not Sociology: Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts (1938) (0)
- Parent Education and the Colleges (1932) (0)
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