In 1926-1927, Redfield studied the small Mexican town of Tepoztlán, about fifty miles south of Mexico City. At that time, he thought of the community as "folk"; today we would use the term "peasant" to characterize it. Redfield (as paraphrased by Lewis) found Tepoztlán to be:... a relatively homogeneous, isolated, smoothly functioning and well-integrated society made up of a contented and well adjusted people.