Knowledge for What: The Place of Social Science in American Culture

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Princeton University Press, Mar 8, 2015 - Social Science - 280 pages

Contents: Foreword ix; I. Social Science in Crisis 1; II. The Concept of "Culture" 11; III. The Pattern of American Culture 54; IV. The Social Sciences as Tools 114; V. Values and the Social Sciences 180; VI. Some Outrageous Hypotheses 202; Index 251

Originally published in 1939.

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Robert S. Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd, American sociologists, became renowned for their pioneering studies of the small city of Muncie, Indiana, which they called Middletown. Not since Tocqueville's Democracy in America has there been such a careful analysis of daily life in an American community. The research in Middletown won Robert Lynd a professorship at Columbia University and Helen Lynd one at Sarah Lawrence College. In the 1970s, a team of sociologists, led by Theodore Caplow, restudied Middletown.

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