A Depression-era study of this place emphasized a "pattern of business-class control" by the so-called "X Family," later revealed to be the Ball family.
Raymond Fosdick attempted to withdraw funding from research into this place over fears that it would overemphasize class distinctions. Dwight W. Hoover founded a center for the study of this place, which was the subject of the 1983 book All Faithful People by Ted Caplow. A thinker best known for two books about this place later criticized "objectivist" social science in his book Knowledge for What? A Depression-era study of this place emphasized a "pattern of business-class control" by the so-called "X Family," later revealed to be the Ball family. The growing importance of radios and cars to leisure activities here in the decades after 1890 was addressed in a 1929 book on this place subtitled "A Study in Contemporary American Culture." For 10 points, give this generic pseudonym for Muncie, Indiana, that appears in the title of two books by sociologists Helen and Robert Lynd.
Raymond Fosdick attempted to withdraw funding from research into this place over fears that it would overemphasize class distinctions.
Middletown [accept Middletown in Transition; accept Muncie until it is read; prompt on Indiana] &lt;Social Science&gt;