Back To Middletown
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Back To Middletown
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Author : Rita Caccamo
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2002-09-01
Back To Middletown written by Rita Caccamo and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-01 with Social Science categories.
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. Their Middletown in Transition, a 1937 restudy of the same community—now known to be Muncie, Indiana—provided a second point of reference on community values in the midst of the great American depression. Achieving the status of cultural benchmarks, these two books have generated an enormous secondary literature on Muncie/Middletown, including a two-volume restudy by Theodore Caplow, published in the 1980s, and a series of six documentary films. Back to Middletown differs from the numerous other investigations and analyses of one of the most famous community studies in the history of sociology. 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 down to the present. She has been resourceful and meticulous in her discovery of previously unknown sources—data, documents, and correspondence—that shed new light on the formation and elaboration of the Lynds' Middletown project and on the changing evaluation of the project by generations of scholars. In the process, the book addresses, from a fresh perspective, major issues that have confronted sociology and social anthropology: relative levels of analysis, the relationship of empirical observation to theory building and conceptual frameworks of interpretation, and controversies focusing on the structure of power in America. In addition to its value and import as a theoretical work, the book takes up questions that reflect the contemporary contradictions and dissonances in the American social fabric. As the author demonstrates, the story of Middletown is a continuing narrative, whose end is yet to be written, encapsulating the pain of social and economic alienation, political war, religious messianism, and personal demoralization.
Back To Middletown
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Author : Rita Caccamo De Luca
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Back To Middletown written by Rita Caccamo De Luca and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Social Science categories.
"Back to Middletown differs from the numerous other investigations and analyses of one of the most famous community studies in the history of sociology. The book addresses, from a fresh perspective, major issues that have confronted sociology and social anthropology: relative levels of analysis, the relationship of empirical observation to theory building and conceptual frameworks of interpretation, and controversies focusing on the structure of power in America. In addition to its value and import as a theoretical work, the book takes up questions that reflect the contemporary contradictions and dissonances in the American social fabric.
A Century In Captivity
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Author : Denis R. Caron
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2006
A Century In Captivity written by Denis R. Caron and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The riveting reconstruction of an eighteenth-century slave's life and imprisonment
American State Papers
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1861
American State Papers written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1861 with Public law categories.
The Second Dynasty
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Author : Richard Paul Jones
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2013-02
The Second Dynasty written by Richard Paul Jones and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02 with Sports & Recreation categories.
THE SECOND DYNASTY explores how the bold initiatives in the 1920s led Middletown, Ohio's high school basketball team to its first state title in 1944, launching an unparalleled dynasty that lasted for sixteen years; ten Final Fours, seven state championships, two national titles, and an unmatched seventy-six-game win streak . And analyses what made the wheels come off.
Middletown Yank S Journey To War And Back
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Author : Gerald J. Miller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Middletown Yank S Journey To War And Back written by Gerald J. Miller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Diaries categories.
All Faithful People
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Author : Theodore Caplow
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 1983-10-17
All Faithful People written by Theodore Caplow and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-10-17 with Religion categories.
All Faithful People was first published in 1983. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. In 1924 Robert and Helen Lynd went to Middletown (Muncie, Indiana) to study American institutions and values. The results of their work are the classic studies Middletown (1929) and Middletown in Transition (1937). In the late 1970s a team of social scientists returned to Middletown to gauge the changes that have taken place in the fifty years since the Lynds' first visit. The Middletown III Project, by replicating the earlier work, in some cases by using the same questions, provides an unprecedented portrait of a small American town as it adapts to changing times. Its first report, Middletown Families, was published by Minnesota in 1982. This book explores the role of religion in the life of Middletown. Using the Lynds' magnificent cache of empirical data as a base, social scientists on the Middletown III Project attempted to gauge how religious beliefs and practices have changed. For the most part, their findings show that the current perception of a trend toward a more secular society is not true. In Middletown, religion seems to be more important than ever. All Faithful People also covers the history of Middletown's churches, the differences between the town's Protestants and Catholics, religious participation among young people, and the role in Middletown life of private devotions and public rituals. In conclusion, the authors of All Faithful People evaluate Middletown as a representative community. They attempt to explain the myth of the death of organized religion, and briefly compare religion in America to religion in other Western countries. Fifty years after the Lynds first made Middletown famous, a team of social scientists returned to find out how American values have changed. This, their second report, focuses on religion. What does religion mean to Middletown today? Has America become a secular society? Those are some of the questions discussed in All Faithful People.
John W Garrett And The Baltimore And Ohio Railroad
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Author : Kathleen Waters Sander
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2017-05-25
John W Garrett And The Baltimore And Ohio Railroad written by Kathleen Waters Sander and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Garrett and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is a vivid account of Garrett's twenty-six-year reign.
House Documents Otherwise Publ As Executive Documents
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Author : United States. Congress. House
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1858
House Documents Otherwise Publ As Executive Documents written by United States. Congress. House and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1858 with United States categories.
The Rich Cut Glass Of Charles Guernsey Tuthill
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Author : Maurice Crofford
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 2001
The Rich Cut Glass Of Charles Guernsey Tuthill written by Maurice Crofford and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Crafts & Hobbies categories.
"In this detailed narrative of the business Tuthill founded, the patterns he created, the techniques he used, and the other artisans and consumers he knew, Maurice Crofford has written the story of an earlier, more elegant and leisurely era. For those knowledgeable about cut glass, the development of the forms will be instructive; for others, who simply appreciate the beauty of the glass, the numerous black and white photographs will appeal. Beyond both of those dimensions, however, Crofford provides a fascinating insight into the ways industrialization and mass production and, more especially, the automobile, changed forever the ways upper-class Americans lived, entertained, and displayed their good fortune. In Tuthill's career, moreover, Crofford finds an example of American ingenuity and creative genius in responding to changing times."--BOOK JACKET.