Middletown : a study in American culture / Robert S. Lynd & Helen Merrell Lynd ; foreword by Clark Wissler.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lynd, Robert Staughton, 1892-1970 (Author)
Lynd, Helen Merrell, 1896-1982 (Author)
Language:English
Published: San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, [1957]
Subjects:
United States > Social conditions.
Cities and towns > United States.
Cost and standard of living > United States.
United States > Religion.
Community life.
Cities and towns.
Cost and standard of living.
Religion.
Social conditions.
United States.
Physical Description:x, 550 pages ; 21 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Nature of the investigation
  • The city selected
  • The historical setting
  • The dominance of getting a living
  • Who earn Middletown's living?
  • What Middletown does to get its living
  • The long arm of the job
  • Why do they work so hard?
  • The houses in which Middletown lives
  • Marriage
  • Child-rearing
  • Food, clothing, and housework
  • Who go to school?
  • The things children learn
  • Those who train the young
  • School life
  • Traditional ways of spending leisure
  • Inventions re-making leisure
  • The organization of leisure
  • Dominant religious beliefs
  • Where and when religious rites are carried on
  • Leaders and participants in religious rites
  • Religious observances
  • The machinery of government
  • Keeping healthy
  • Caring for the unable
  • Getting information
  • Things making and unmaking group solidarity
  • Conclusion.