William Foote Whyte
Anthropologist, Author
1914 – 2000
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Who was William Foote Whyte?
William Foote Whyte was a sociologist chiefly known for his ethnographic study in urban sociology, Street Corner Society. A pioneer in 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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- Born
- 1914
United States of America - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Chicago
- Swarthmore College
- Employment
- Cornell University
- Died
- 2000
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on July 23, 2013
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