Middletown in transition : a study in cultural conflicts / by Robert S. Lynd & Helen Merrell Lynd.

Main entry:

Lynd, Robert Staughton, 1892-1970, author.

Title & Author:

Middletown in transition : a study in cultural conflicts / by Robert S. Lynd & Helen Merrell Lynd.

Publication:

Description:

xviii, 604 pages : diagram ; 24 cm

Series:

Harvest book

Notes:
Illustrated lining-papers.
"First edition."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Middletown revisited -- Getting a living -- The X family: a pattern of business-class control -- Caring for the unable during the Depression: bench marks for social change -- Making a home: the arena of private adjustment -- Training the young -- Spending leisure -- Religion -- The machinery of government -- Getting information: the press -- Keeping healthy -- "The Middletown spirit" -- Middletown faces both ways -- Appendix I. The size of the city: 1925-1935 -- Appendix II. Middletown's banking institutions in boom and depression -- Appendix III. Tables.

Summary:

A sequel to the authors' influential "Middletown" (1929), revisiting the typical American town in light of the ten years that had elapsed since the original study.

ISBN:

0156595516 (paperback)
9780156595513 (paperback)

Subject:

Cities and towns United States.
Community life.
Culture.
Social change.
Social history.
Social values.
Social surveys.
Communities.
Social Change
Social Conditions
Social Values
Villes États-Unis.
Enquêtes sociales.
Communauté.
Changement social.
Histoire sociale.
Valeurs sociales.
culture note.
social history.
culture (concept)
Cities and towns
Economic history
Manners and customs
Religion
Social conditions
Stadssociologie.
Cost and standard of living United States.
Community life United States.
United States Social conditions.
United States Economic conditions 1918-1945.
United States Religion 1901-1945.
Muncie (Ind.) Social life and customs.
United States Economic conditions.
United States Religion.
United States
États-Unis Conditions sociales.
États-Unis Conditions économiques.
États-Unis Religion.
États-Unis Conditions économiques 1918-1945.
États-Unis Religion 1901-1945.
Indiana Muncie

Added entries:

Lynd, Helen Merrell, 1896-1982, author.
Harvest book.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 15880
Call No.: W9103; ID:87-B15964
Status: Available

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