# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/helen-lynd
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:36:02.588Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/helen-lynd"
name: "Helen Lynd"
slug: "helen-lynd"
description: "Helen Merrell Lynd was an American sociologist, social philosopher, educator, and author. She is best known for conducting the first Middletown studies of Muncie, Indiana, with her husband, Robert Staughton 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. She was also the author of England in the 1880s: Toward a Social Basis for Freedom (1945), On Shame and the Search for Identity (1958), and essays on academic freedom. In addition to writing and research, Lynd was a lecturer at Vassar College, and a professor at Sarah Lawrence College from 1929 to 1964."
tagline: "American sociologist and social philosopher (1896-1982)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1896-03-17"
deathDate: "1982-01-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.470266666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Helen Lynd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AF"
    title: "هيلين ليند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_M._Lynd"
    title: "Helen M. Lynd"
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    title: "הלן לינד"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Lynd"
    title: "Helen Lynd"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Merrell_Lynd"
    title: "Helen Merrell Lynd"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump