Ko Robert Staughton Lynd (Hepetema 26, 1892 i New Albany, Indiana - Whiringa-a-rangi 1, 1970 i New York City) he kaimātai hapori Amerika i whanau i New Albany, Indiana. He ahorangi ia mo te taha hapori i te Whare Wananga o Columbia, New York City. Ko Robert raua ko Helen Lynd te tino rongonui mo te tuhi i nga rangahau "Middletown" o Muncie, Indiana - Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture (1929) me Middletown in Transition ( 1937)[1], he matarohia o te ao o Amerika. Ko Muncie te hapori tuatahi i tirohia nahanaha e nga kaimätai hapori o Amerika. I haere a Lynd ki te kaareti i te Whare Wananga o Princeton, a, i whiwhi tohu atua mai i te Uniana Theological Seminary. Whai muri i tana mahi hei minita i Elk Basin, Wyoming, i te puni hinu Rockefeller, ka tuhia e Lynd te tuhinga "Done in Oil" hei whakaatu i nga tikanga i reira. Ko tenei panui me ana mahi hapori i kawe mai a Lynd ki te aro o te whanau Rockefeller me te hua i utua ia mo te rangahau hapori Middletown e te Rockefeller Institute of Social and Religious Research[2]. I muri mai i te ako a Muncie, i whiwhi a Lynd i te tohu paetahi i roto i nga mahi sociology mai i te Whare Wananga o Columbia, ma te whakamahi i te waahanga poto o Middletown hei tuhinga roa. nga tamariki a Robert Staughton Lynd raua ko Helen Lynd.