Art, Joseph Bensman and Maurice Stein were honored with the Robert and Helen Lynd award for their work in community studies. These three men collaborated on a number of significant books and scholarly initiatives over a forty year period. Maurice Stein was at Brandeis University, Art was at the New School and Joseph Bensman was at Brooklyn College and later City University of New York. These three sociologists changed the shape of modern sociology - bringing a deeply needed emphasis on participant observation, community studies and the need for a critical eye as western intellectual traditions became increasingly bureaucratized and corrupted by governmental and corporate interest groups.
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