Whyte, William Foote, 1914-
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- Summary
- 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. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][2][3][4][5][6]
- Born
- 1914-06-27 [2][6]
- Died
- 2000-07-16 [2][6]
- Country
- United States [2]
- Language
- English [3]
- Occupation
- anthropologist [6]
- sociologist [6]
- Profession
- Soziologe [2]
- Employer
- Cornell University [6]
- University of Oklahoma [6]
- Educated at
- Swarthmore College [6]
- University of Chicago [6]
- Country of Education
- United States [6]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [6]
- American National Biography
- Biography (requires subscription) [6]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. Library of Congress
- 5. National Library of Korea
- 6. Wikidata
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