"Street Corner Society" is one of a handful of works that can justifiably be called classics of sociological research. William Foote Whyte's account of the Italian American slum he called "Cornerville"--Boston's North End--has been the model for urban ethnography for fifty years.
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Through a rejection of the traditional separation between the researcher and the research setting, this volume discusses a philosophy in which the researcher is fully involved in the process of organizational learning and change. William Foote Whyte and his collaborators outline the theory and meth[...]
William Foote Whytes Street Corner Society från 1943 är en levande klassiker. Den handlar om socialt samspel, nätverk och vardagsliv bland unga män i den italiensk-amerikanska stadsdelen North End i Boston under 1930-talets depression. Whyte bodde själv i stadsdelen under åren 1936?40 och umg[...]