Robert Staughton Lynd, American sociologist and academic (died 1970)

Robert Staughton Lynd

American sociologist

Robert Staughton Lynd was an American sociologist and professor at Columbia University, New York City. He is best known for conducting the first Middletown studies of Muncie, Indiana, with his wife, Helen Lynd; as the coauthor of Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American…