Middletown In Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts – A Landmark Examination of How Prosperity and Depression Changed a Community

by Robert Staughton Lynd, Helen Merrell Lynd

This sequel to Middletown returns to the same community in 1935, to examine the changes brought about by the prosperity of the late 1920s and the subsequent Depression. Preface by Robert S. Lynd; Index.

Genres: Sociology, History, Nonfiction

624 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1937

About the author

Robert Staughton Lynd was 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 Culture (1929) and Middletown in Transition (1937), which are classics of American sociology. Muncie was the first community to be systematically examined by sociologists in the United States.