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Robert Staughton Lynd

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Also known as Robert S. Lynd

American sociologist (1892–1970)

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Born
1892
Died
1970
Works
17

Top works

  • The place of the university in 1940
  • Medical care in Middletown
  • Knowledge for What?
  • Knowledge for what? The place of social science in American culture
  • Knowledge for what?

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  • I see the tasks of social sciences to discover what kinds of order actually do exist in the whole range of the behavior of human beings; what kind of functional relationships between different parts of culture exist in space and over time, and what functionally more useful kinds of order can be created.
  • The failure of the social sciences to think through and to integrate their several responsibilities for the common problem of relating the analysis of parts to the analysis of the whole constitutes one of the major lags crippling their utility as human tools of knowledge.

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