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Author : Robert Staughton Lynd
Publisher : New York : Harcourt : Brace
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Middletown in Transition written by Robert Staughton Lynd and published by New York : Harcourt : Brace. This book was released on 1965 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Staughton Lynd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Middletown in transition written by Robert Staughton Lynd and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Staughton Lynd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (316 download)
Download or read book Middletown in Transition written by Robert Staughton Lynd and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert S. Lynd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (126 download)
Download or read book Middletown in Transition written by Robert S. Lynd and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mrs. Helen (Merrell) Lynd
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Middletown in transition written by Mrs. Helen (Merrell) Lynd and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Staughton Lynd
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739134604
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Stepping Stones written by Staughton Lynd and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009-08-17 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stepping Stones is a joint memoir by two longtime participants in movements for social change in the United States. Staughton and Alice Lynd have worked for racial equality, against war, with workers and prisoners, and against the death penalty. Coming from similar ethical backgrounds but with very different personalities, the Lynds spent three years in an intentional community in Northeast Georgia during the 1950s. There they experienced a way of living that they later sought to carry into the larger society. Both were educated to be teachers—Staughton as a professor of history and Alice as a teacher of preschool children. But both sought to address the social problems of their times through more than their professions. After being involved in the Southern civil rights movement and the movement against the war in Vietnam in the 1960s, both Staughton and Alice became lawyers. In the Youngstown, Ohio, area they helped workers to create a variety of rank-and-file organizations. After retirement, they became advocates for prisoners who were sentenced to death or confined under supermaximum security conditions. Through trips to Central America in the 1980s, Staughton and Alice became familiar with the concept of “accompaniment.” To them, accompaniment means placing themselves at the side of the poor and oppressed, not as dispensers of charity or as guilty fugitives from the middle class, but as equals in a joint process to which each person brings an essential kind of expertise. Throughout, the Lynds, who became Quakers in the early 1960s, have been committed to nonviolence. Their story will encourage young people seeking lives of public service in the cause of creating a better world.
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Author : Dwight W. Hoover
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9783718605439
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Middletown written by Dwight W. Hoover and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1992 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the immensely influential 1937 sociological study Middletown: A Case Study in Cultural Conflicts by Robert and Helen Lynd, Peter Davis's six documentary films about Muncie, Indiana, set out to examine the lives of Munsonians in the early 1980s. The disputes and conflicts accompanying the filming revealed more about American values and customs than the films themselves. While attempting to transform the data from the Middletown studies into a meaningful and interesting visual form, the filmmakers were constantly distracted by the pressures, decisions and perils of government- and corporate-funded documentary filmmaking. Dwight W. Hoover, a Muncie historian and collaborator in the Middletown film project, describes why the films were made and how they changed the lives of everyone involved.
Author : Robert s Lynd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Middletown in transition, by s.r. lynd and h.m. lynd written by Robert s Lynd and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Staughton Lynd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Middletown in Transition; A Study in Cultural Conflicts, by Robert S. Lynd Helen Merrell Lynd written by Robert Staughton Lynd and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick D. Hopkins
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253212306
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Sex/Machine written by Patrick D. Hopkins and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As powerful interacting social and physical forces, gender and technology shape our experiences, cultures, and identities-sometimes in such comfortable and subtle ways that it takes effort to appreciate them; sometimes in such conspicuous and explosive ways that everyone recognizes their importance. Delving into these issues is an opportunity to discover how technology promises or threatens to rewrite our ideas about sex, sexuality, and gender identity.
Author : Miles Orvell
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807837563
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Death and Life of Main Street written by Miles Orvell and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, the term "Main Street" has conjured up nostalgic images of American small-town life. Representations exist all around us, from fiction and film to the architecture of shopping malls and Disneyland. All the while, the nation has become increasingly diverse, exposing tensions within this ideal. In The Death and Life of Main Street, Miles Orvell wrestles with the mythic allure of the small town in all its forms, illustrating how Americans continue to reinscribe these images on real places in order to forge consensus about inclusion and civic identity, especially in times of crisis. Orvell underscores the fact that Main Street was never what it seemed; it has always been much more complex than it appears, as he shows in his discussions of figures like Sinclair Lewis, Willa Cather, Frank Capra, Thornton Wilder, Margaret Bourke-White, and Walker Evans. He argues that translating the overly tidy cultural metaphor into real spaces--as has been done in recent decades, especially in the new urbanist planned communities of Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Andres Duany--actually diminishes the communitarian ideals at the center of this nostalgic construct. Orvell investigates the way these tensions play out in a variety of cultural realms and explores the rise of literary and artistic traditions that deliberately challenge the tropes and assumptions of small-town ideology and life.
Author : Luke E. Lassiter
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780759104846
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (48 download)
Download or read book The Other Side of Middletown written by Luke E. Lassiter and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2004 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prompted by the overt omission of Muncie's black community from the famous study by Lynd and Lynd, Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture, the authors uncover the neglected part of the story of Middletown, a well-known pseudonym for the Midwestern city of Muncie, Indiana. It is a uniquely collaborative field study involving local experts, ethnographers, and teams of college students. The book, The Other Side of Middletown, and DVD, Middletown Redux, are valuable resources for community research. Sponsored by the Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry, Muncie, Indiana.
Author : Jon Savage
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440635587
Total Pages : 761 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Teenage written by Jon Savage and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his previous landmark book on youth culture and teen angst, the award-winning England's Dreaming, Jon Savage presented the "definitive history of the English punk movement" (The New York Times). Now, in Teenage, he explores the secret prehistory of a phenomenon we thought we knew, in a monumental work of cultural investigative reporting. Beginning in 1875 and ending in 1945, when the term "teenage" became an integral part of popular culture, Savage draws widely on film, music, literature high and low, fashion, politics, and art and fuses popular culture and social history into a stunning chronicle of modern life.
Author : Rita Caccamo
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804763992
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Back to Middletown written by Rita Caccamo and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1929, Robert Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd's Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture was destined to become a sociological point of reference for the quality of life in an "average" American town in the 1920s. Their Middletown in Transition, a 1937 restudy of the same community—now known to be Muncie, Indiana—provided a second point of reference on community values in the midst of the great American depression. Achieving the status of cultural benchmarks, these two books have generated an enormous secondary literature on Muncie/Middletown, including a two-volume restudy by Theodore Caplow, published in the 1980s, and a series of six documentary films. Back to Middletown differs from the numerous other investigations and analyses of one of the most famous community studies in the history of sociology. The author, an Italian sociologist, examines the complete Middletown saga through the distinctive lens of an outsider, tracing the character and evolution of "middle America" from the Lynds' time down to the present. She has been resourceful and meticulous in her discovery of previously unknown sources—data, documents, and correspondence—that shed new light on the formation and elaboration of the Lynds' Middletown project and on the changing evaluation of the project by generations of scholars. In the process, the book addresses, from a fresh perspective, major issues that have confronted sociology and social anthropology: relative levels of analysis, the relationship of empirical observation to theory building and conceptual frameworks of interpretation, and controversies focusing on the structure of power in America. In addition to its value and import as a theoretical work, the book takes up questions that reflect the contemporary contradictions and dissonances in the American social fabric. As the author demonstrates, the story of Middletown is a continuing narrative, whose end is yet to be written, encapsulating the pain of social and economic alienation, political war, religious messianism, and personal demoralization.
Author : Sarah E. Igo
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674038940
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Averaged American written by Sarah E. Igo and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: supports the death penalty, that half of all marriages end in divorce, and that four out of five prefer a particular brand of toothpaste. But remarkably, such data--now woven into our social fabric--became common currency only in the last century. With a bold and sophisticated analysis, Sarah Igo demonstrates the power of scientific surveys to shape Americans' sense of themselves as individuals, members of communities, and citizens of a nation.
Author : Mark C. Smith
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822314974
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (149 download)
Download or read book Social Science in the Crucible written by Mark C. Smith and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1920s and 30s were key decades for the history of American social science. The success of such quantitative disciplines as economics and psychology during World War I forced social scientists to reexamine their methods and practices and to consider recasting their field as a more objective science separated from its historical foundation in social reform. The debate that ensued, fiercely conducted in books, articles, correspondence, and even presidential addresses, made its way into every aspect of social science thought of the period and is the subject of this book. Mark C. Smith first provides a historical overview of the controversy over the nature and future of the social sciences in early twentieth-century America and, then through a series of intellectual biographies, offers an intensive study of the work and lives of major figures who participated in this debate. Using an extensive range of materials, from published sources to manuscript collections, Smith examines "objectivists"--economist Wesley Mitchell and political scientist Charles Merriam--and the more "purposive thinkers"--historian Charles Beard, sociologist Robert Lynd, and political scientist and neo-Freudian Harold Lasswell. He shows how the debate over objectivity and social purpose was central to their professional and personal lives as well as to an understanding of American social science between the two world wars. These biographies bring to vivid life a contentious moment in American intellectual history and reveal its significance in the shaping of social science in this country.
