William Foote Whyte
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican sociologist (1914-2000)
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William Foote Whyte was an American sociologist chiefly known for his ethnographic study in urban sociology, Street Corner Society.
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Peter BlauAlso won W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship awardWilliam Julius WilsonAlso won W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship award
Harrison WhiteAlso won W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship awardEverett HughesAlso won W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship awardLewis A. CoserAlso won W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship awardEdward ShilsAlso won W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship awardAbout this person
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.
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Lived 1914 to 2000 · aged 86
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