SUBJECT INDEX



    All Faithful People   548, 627, 676
      review of   665, 666, 669, 670, 691-693, 696, 701, 705,708, 709, 711, 717, 718, 736, 749, 760, 768, 780

    Anti-business bias   269

    Anti-intellectualism   221

    Anti-union attitudes   105, 127

    Anti-war rally   200

    Architecture   197

    Attitudes and values of teenagers   285

    Attitudes, continuity of   91

    Attitudes toward
      aids   797
      communism   396
      federal government   313, 316-318
      politicians   270
      workers   215

    Attitudes of local citizens on Lynd studies   46, 61-66, 90, 99, 109, 138, 158, 169, 179

    Automobile,
      impact of   393, 684, 767
      importance of   1, 218, 266, 455,

    Babbitt   13, 82, 103, 116

    Black community studied   367, 411, 416, 454, 785

    Black women   659

    "Blocked mobility hypothesis"   173, 191

    Bourke-White, Margaret   69-73, 76, 78, 79,81, 96, 108, 139, 216, 220, 616, 633, 686, 771

    British view of Middletown   330, 331, 478

    Brokerage firm   441, 657

    Business-labor attitudes   151

    Business-working class mentality   22

    Canadian interest in Middletown   364

    Caplow, Theodore   261, 401
      lecture by   587-589

    Care of insane   443

    Center for Middletown Studies   386, 417, 637,641, 642, 649,656, 694, 698, 790

    Changes in
      adolescent attitudes   314
      family life   368, 412, 419, 776
      reading habits   75

    Child-rearing, class differences   214

    Christian Right in Middletown   608, 706, 747,751, 769, 770, 773,175

    Class consciousness   337, 406

    Class division   127

    Class-values relationship   257

    Clothing   195, 219

    Cocaine, use of   786

    College student attitudes   370

    Comic Culture   397

    Communal environments   228

    Community bonds   632

    Community patterns   153

    Community power   156, 159, 224, 227, 350

    Community profile   141

    Community research   254

    Community satisfaction   764

    Comparison of Middletown to
      Southerntown   102
      other cities   167-168, 183
      Yankee City   176, 178

    Consumerism   342, 644

    Cultural lag   30

    Crime and
        modernization 451
        in Middletown   293, 357, 384, 392, 395, 620, 672,765

    Criticism of
      capitalism   674
      Lynd's methodology   23, 44, 120, 164, 256, 278, 361
      Lynd's treatment of community power   350

    Dale, George   45, 49, 63, 65, 129, 184, 227, 264

    Davis, Peter   311, 479

    Dropping out of school   315

    Effects of
      college on Middletown   207
      Depression   58-60, 85-87, 114
      gas boom   423
      inflation   196
      Lynd's studies on Ball Family   775
      World War II   142-149, 158, 160

    Elk Basin, Wyoming   339, 340

    Employee-employer relationships   88

    Equalization of income   791

    Ethnographic perspective   18, 154, 295, 308, 688

    Evils of modernization   352

    Family
      businesses   373
      changes in   335, 378, 379, 381, 387
      solidarity   738

    Family roles   360, 424

    Fear of depression   463

    Federal housing   399

    Federal presence   193, 283, 284, 369, 391, 404

    Fosdick, Raymond B., speech by   31, 32

    Gardens   68

    Garfield the cat   383

    Geographic and social mobility   273, 304

    Gift giving   702, 719, 720

    Gini ratio   333

    Growing Up in Middletown   439

    High school drop-outs   315

    History of Middletown studies   464, 690

    History of organized labor   194, 250

    Hometown   440, 568
      review of   490, 527, 529, 544, 551, 601, 639, 661

    Humanistic assumptions   230

    Humorous view of Middletown   355, 469

    Images of women   792

    Importance of education   260

    Industrial communities   153

    Inequality and life-styles   628

    Japanese interest in Middletown   377, 382

    Jewish community in Middletown   162, 163, 172, 182, 605, 667, 746

    Job satisfaction   251

    Kinship interaction   307, 457, 607, 675, 719, 720

    Knowledge for What?   137, 336, 359

    Ku Klux Klan   45, 264

    Lack of change   94, 95, 294, 296, 297, 300, 320, 321, 326,420, 716

    Lack of typicality   347

    Law in Middletown   332, 343

    Leisure and
      traditional values   33
      changes in   783
      use of   236

    Lifestyle   286, 349

    Lingeman, Richard   186-189, 199
      speech by   578, 579, 585, 586

    "Local history" school   241

    Local literature   306

    Lower-lower class isolation   235

    Lynd, Helen M.   276, 456, 631
      obituary   459-461
      speech by   374

    Lynd, Robert S.   302
      bibliography   334
      biography   338, 341, 629
      elitist approach   350
      obituary   205-208, 211
      reflection upon   603, 663, 753
      research for second book   61-66
      speech by   2, 3, 170, 171, 174

    Magic Middletown   772, 787, 789

    Mainstreet   5

    Marketing   140

    Marriage, changing attitudes about   212

    Measurement of social change   152, 348, 635, 673, 716

    Medical care   43

    Mental illness   672

    Middletown  6, 48
      as ethnological research   18, 154
      as landmark study   185, 398, 410, 643, 645
      compared with
        Chicago   157
        English town   18, 35
        Erie, PA   757
        New Yorkers   4
        San Jose   267
        Tepotztlan   47
      funding for   376, 426
      in the year 2000   593
      on television in Finland   259
      review of   5, 7-29, 40-42, 53, 56, 57

    Middletown at night   229

    Middletown Families   438, 561, 575
      review of   418, 422, 485, 569, 583, 601, 602, 610, 622, 625, 661, 697, 768

    Middletown Film Project   311, 312, 365, 366, 448, 452, 453

    Middletown Film Series   328
      "A Community of Praise"   432, 445, 542, 545-547, 550, 555, 573, 617, 647
      Ben Wattenberg episode   435, 580, 590, 591, 597, 598
      controversy   522, 599
      "Family Business"   433, 446, 489, 502, 524, 556, 557, 562-565, 572, 576, 577, 600, 619
      history of   466, 504, 509, 794
      impact on local community   523, 532, 581, 582
      review of   458, 470, 495, 497, 499, 506, 510, 526, 528, 540, 549, 553, 554, 559, 560, 567, 596, 611, 612, 621, 626, 634, 636, 661, 662
      "Second Time Around"   434, 447, 566, 571, 574, 640
      "Seventeen"   
        450, 496, 500, 508, 530, 531, 534-539, 552, 609, 614, 650-652, 699, 700, 710, 712, 713, 723-732, 734, 737, 739-742, 744, 750, 754, 755
      "The Big Game"   431, 449, 519, 520, 525, 541, 543
      "The Campaign"   427, 429, 430, 444, 471, 498, 503, 507, 511, 512, 514-518, 533

    Middletown in Transition   67
      local criticism of   77, 80
      Marxist influence   240
      review of   80,82-89, 92-95,97-130, 132-136, 799

      Middletown Man: The Human Side of Life in Muncie, Indiana   230-233, 237-239, 375

      The Middletown Photographs   658, 677, 679, 680-683, 685,703, 707

      Middletown III   262, 346, 437
        compared to NORC data   624, 717
        criticism of   733
        research   271, 272, 277, 279-281, 324, 325, 344, 385, 388, 462, 618

      Middletown, U.S.A.   648

      Modernization theory   793

      Moral and spiritual decline   34

      Moral Majority   655, 704

      "Muncie Garden Plan"   50-52,

      "Muncie Job Plan"   54, 55

      Music   192, 782

      My Grandfather's Middletown   721, 743, 752

      Myth of declining family   425, 570

      NBC focus on Middletown   201-203, 287-292, 363, 400, 407, 408, 413, 414

      Nursing, history of   630

      Occupational mobility   275

      Oral history   745

      Overstatement of rapid change   234

      Perrigo, Lynn   222, 468

      Pessimism of sociological studies  245

      Piety   405, 409

      Pioneer community   273

      Poetry of Middletown   255, 274, 355, 584, 664, 668

      Police in Middletown   654, 762

      Political attitudes   380, 421, 769, 774

      Political corruption   45, 243, 268

      Population persistence   638

      Power structure in Middletown   159, 175, 243, 268

      Pre-school child care   442

      Prostitution   758, 792, 796

      Public policy choices   226

      Quality of life   766, 779

      Racial strife   298

      Reactions of local residents to being studied   66, 291, 798

      Reading habits   74-75, 186

      Religion and jury trials   735

      Religious
        attitudes   761, 774
        behavior   604, 660, 748, 759
        change   323, 428, 436, 606, 623, 665, 693, 722
        rituals   695, 781
        symbolism   371
        tension   166

      Representativeness of local university   322

      Reputation of Middletown   181, 594, 689

      Residential mobility   403

      Restless youth   303

      Rockefeller, John D., Jr.   674

      Role of "X"-family   165, 190, 227, 687

      School sports as social training   465

      Secularization   678, 692

      Self-Esteem and faith   653

      Seventeen
        criticism of   472-477, 480-484, 486-488,491-494, 513, 558, 615
        defense of   493, 501, 505, 520, 592, 613

      Significance of Middletown books   198, 213, 217

      Slowing of modernization   353

      Small Town America   356

      Social anthropological approach   265

      Social Change Report   795

      Social class structure   155, 646

      Social criticism   715

      Social mobility   345

      Social stratification   161, 180

      Sociological hostility toward religion   714

      Status attainment of women   305

      Stock sales   150

      Teaching as a low-status profession   671

      Time magazine focus on Middletown   298-300

      Traditional values   37-39, 87

      Transience   763

      Two-income families   301, 309, 310, 354

      Typicality of Middletown   201, 204, 225, 327, 351, 394

      Urban response to the Depression  128

      Use of Middletown books at local university   209, 210

      Voluntary associations   415

      Voting patterns   258, 282, 372

      Watergate, attitudes toward   223, 244

      Wissler, Clark   358

      Women
        and the arts   777, 778
        and crime   758
        in the labor force   300

      Work and leisure   756

      Work ethic   389, 390

      Working conditions   252

      Working women   242, 319, 329, 595

      Working in Middletown   246-253, 263

      Youth and the church   467

      Youth needs   131