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Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts. By Robert S. Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. [Toronto: George J. McLeod.] 1937. Pp. xviii, 604. ($5.00)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Everett C. Hughes*
Affiliation:
McGill University
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Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association 1938

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1 These are getting a living, making a home, training the young, using leisure, engaging in religious practices, and finally, engaging in community activities.

2 British Association for the Advancement of Science, Centenary Meeting, London, 1931, section H,—Anthropology.

3 Incidentally, the authors seem to the reviewer to have mis-stated the laissez-faire point of view, when they say that it assumes “a rational appraisal and balancing of socially useful functions” (p. 46). The ordinary statement of this philosophy is that if a person rationally pursues his own interests, a balancing of useful functions will automatically result,—“as by an invisible hand”.