Back to Middletown by Caccamo, Rita ISBN 0804738467
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An outsiders perspective on one of American sociology's most renowned studies.
Back to Middletown takes a fresh look at Robert and Helen Merrell Lynd's two inter-war studies of Muncie, Indiana and the enormous secondary literature which they spawned. It differs from the numerous other investigations by examining the complete Middletown saga through the distinctive lens of an outsider, that of an Italian sociologist, tracing the character and evolution of 'middle America' from the Lynds' time to the present. The author's discovery of previously unknown data, documents and correspondence sheds new light on the formation and elaboration of the Lynds' project. She addresses major issues of sociology and social anthropology and takes up questions that reflect the contemporary contradictions and dissonances in the American social fabric. This book shows that the continuing narrative of Middletown encapsulates the pain of social and economic alienation, political war, religious messianism, and personal demoralization.
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[edit] Title
Back to Middletown
[edit] Author
Caccamo, Rita
[edit] ISBN
0804738467
[edit] Published
11/10/2001
[edit] Publisher
Stanford University Press
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