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Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
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Robert Staughton Lynd
sociologist, writer
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1892 – 1970
Robert Staughton Lynd was an American sociologist and professor at Columbia University, New York City. He is best known for conducting the first Middletown studies of Muncie, Indiana, with his wife, Helen Lynd; as the coauthor of Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture (1929) and Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts (1937); and a pioneer in the use of social surveys. He was also the author of Knowledge for What? The Place of the Social Sciences in American Culture (1939). In addition to writing and research, Lynd taught at Columbia from 1931 to 1960. He also served on U.S. government committees and advisory boards, including President Herbert Hoover's Research Committee on Social Trends and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Consumers' Advisory Board of the National Recovery Administration. Lynd was also a member of several scientific societies.
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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.
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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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Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
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One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
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Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
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There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.
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Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
— Robert Staughton Lynd