Back To Middletown: Three Generations Of Sociological Reflections; Author: Caccamo De Luca, Rita; Introduction: Vidich, Arthur J.; Paperback

Author: Caccamo De Luca, Rita; Introduction: Vidich, Arthur J.
Paperback; Notes, Index
176 pages
Published: October 2001
Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804738467

Robert Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd's Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture (1929) and Middletown in Transition (1937) have become cultural benchmarks and sociological points of reference for the quality of life in an average American small town -- now known to be Muncie, Indiana -- in the 1920s and 1930s. The two books have generated an enormous secondary literature through the years, but Back to Middletown differs from previous investigations and analyses. 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 to the present.An outsiders perspective on one of American sociology's most renowned studies. 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. This study sheds new light on the Middletown project.