Robert Staughton Lynd
Robert Staughton Lynd
Robert Staughton Lyndwas an American sociologist and professor at Columbia University, New York City. Robert and his wife Helen Lynd are best known for writing the groundbreaking "Middletown" studies of Muncie, Indiana - Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Cultureand Middletown in Transition, which are classics of American sociology. Muncie was the first community to be systematically examined by sociologists in the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSociologist
Date of Birth26 September 1892
CountryUnited States of America
I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.
Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.
Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.
When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons.