Robert Lynd and Helen Lynd were the famous American sociologists, because of their publication, “A Study in Contemporary American Culture “ (1929) and its report on employment, which study societal changes bring about by the Great Depression. Lynd was the pioneer in using the technique of cultural anthropology to the study of a modern Western city. Helen and Robert set out to study the religion within a delegate American town in the late 1920s. Their publication was a work of both serious and admired approval, altering conventional disciplinary approach about sociological studies and revealing the community to the change in the ...