2011 Lynd Award: Urban Sociology and the Health of the Nation’s Cities
Greg Squires
George Washington University
2011 Fall, Vol. 24, No. 1
The state of urban sociology is probably healthier than that of the nation’s urban and metropolitan areas. I do not think there is a connection. At least I hope this is not the case. But I am reminded of Robert Lynd’s warning from his 1939 book Knowledge for What that academics do not want to be caught “lecturing on navigation while the ship is going down.”
Community and Urban Sociology 