One work about this place explored the "Pattern of Business-Class Control" of the X Family and concluded with a lengthy list of the title place's values and contradictory values, its namesake (*) "Spirit".  
In a work about "the other side" of this place, Luke Eric Lassiter argued that the lack of African Americans in it could be seen as a metaphor for the invisibility of African Americans before the Civil-Rights era.  One work about this place explored the "Pattern of Business-Class Control" of the X Family and concluded with a lengthy list of the title place's values and contradictory values, its namesake (*) "Spirit".  The first book on this place outlines six interactions people have with it, including "training the young" and "making a home."  Against the suggestion of Robert Park, this place was chosen for its homogeneous population of white Anglo-Saxons, and life here in 1890 was contrasted with conditions in 1925.  For 10 points, name this place studied by Robert and Helen Lynd, in actuality Muncie, Indiana.
In a work about "the other side" of this place, Luke Eric Lassiter argued that the lack of African Americans in it could be seen as a metaphor for the invisibility of African Americans before the Civil-Rights era.  
{Middletown} [prompt on “{Muncie}, {Indiana}” before mentioned]