# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-foote-whyte
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:45:30.408Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-foote-whyte"
name: "William Foote Whyte"
slug: "william-foote-whyte"
description: "William Foote Whyte was an American sociologist chiefly known for his ethnographic study in urban sociology, Street Corner Society. A proponent of participant observation, he lived for four years in an Italian community in Boston while a Junior Fellow at Harvard researching social relations of street gangs in Boston's North End."
tagline: "American sociologist (1914-2000)"
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country:
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birthDate: "1914-06-27"
deathDate: "2000-07-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump