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
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Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.
Friendship is not going to stand the pressure of greatly great guidance for quite extensive.
There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer.