Guy Benton Johnson (February 28, 1901 – March 23, 1991) was an American sociologist and social anthropologist.
He married Guion Griffis, a noted historian, and together they had two sons: Guy Benton, Jr. and Edward.
[1] Johnson died in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on March 23, 1991, at the age of 90.
After teaching a year each at Ohio Wesleyan University and Baylor College for Women (now Mary-Hardin Baylor), Johnson was recruited to North Carolina as a research assistant in Howard W. Odum's new Institute for Research in Social Science in 1924, which he never left for long.
[3] In Folk Culture, he analyzed the Gullah dialect of English spoken by blacks on that isolated South Carolina island and, in sophisticated technical detail, the musical structure of the spirituals they sang to support a new interpretation of black folk culture.