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  Cornell News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Whyte was honored at a meeting of the ASA in New York City last month.
Whyte, 82, a professor emeritus in the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations, is the author of numerous works, but he is best known for his book Street Corner Society, which was first published in 1943.
Whyte taught at Cornell from 1948 to 1980.
www.news.cornell.edu /releases/Sept96/Whyte_award.djg.html   (206 words)

  
 William Foote Whyte, President 1981
William F. Whyte served as the 72nd President of the American Sociological Association.
His Presidential Address, entitled "Social Inventions for Solving Human Problems," was delivered at the Association's 1981 Annual Meeting in Toronto,and was later published in the American Sociological Review (ASR February 1982, Vol 47 No 1, pp 1-13).
Upon his death in 2000, friends and colleagues remembered William Foote Whyte in an article entitled "Colleagues Salute William Foote Whyte," which was published on page 6 of the Setptember/October 2000 issue of Footnotes.
www2.asanet.org /governance/Whyte.html   (84 words)

  
  NYT Archives Article
Whyte was a professor emeritus of sociology at Cornell University.
Whyte was one of the school's most influential faculty members, an outspoken liberal who frequently called for empowering the disenfranchised and narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor.
Whyte is survived by two daughters, Joyce Wiza of Manchester, N.H., and Lucy Whyte Ferguson of Taos, N.M.; two sons, Martin King Whyte of Silver Spring, Md., and John Whyte of Philadelphia; 12 grandchildren; and 8 great-grandchildren.
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 William Foote Whyte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Foote Whyte (June 27, 1914–July 16, 2000) was a prominent sociologist chiefly known for his ethnological study in urban sociology, Street Corner Society.
Whyte, from an upper middle class background, showed an early interest in writing, economics and social reform.
Rehabilitation was only partially successful; Whyte walked with a cane for the rest of his life, and using two arm crutches in his later years.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Foote_Whyte   (455 words)

  
 Meenar's World: Book Review
Whyte chose a topic for his case study which had been rarely a topic of previous studies.
Whyte tried to analyze people individually or as a group member, their life style and ways of survival, opinion, thinking and struggle.
Whyte did not come out and say that this is his question, instead he left the question vague to allow for greater discussion of disparities.
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 Particpant Observation in a 1930s Italian Slum
William Foote Whyte was from a reasonably well off academic family.
Unlike James Patrick in Glasgow, Whyte was not covert to the group.
Whyte became, in effect, the interpreter and spokesperson for this gang to the outside world.
www.change.freeuk.com /learning/socthink/streetcorner.html   (881 words)

  
 Gangs, Gang Violence, Gang Psychology - a Bibliography
William B. Sanders / Paperback / Published 1994
William Foote Whyte / Paperback / Published 1993
William Foote Whyte / Hardcover / Published 1993
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 Business Library, The University of Western Ontario
In January of 1999, William "Holly" Whyte died at the age of 81.
Although he was editor of Fortune magazine and an urban geographer, he is known primarily for the expression "organization man" which was the title of a book he wrote in 1956.
These books are found by searching "Whyte, William Hollingsworth", who should not be confused with the other prolific author in the fields of sociology and organizational behavior - "Whyte, William Foote".
www.lib.uwo.ca /business/whyte.htm   (530 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "William Foote Whyte": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Burleigh Gardner and William Foote Whyte, of the Committee on Human Relations in Industry at the University of Chicago, described the supervisor's role in terms similar...
The ethnographic orientation at the University of Chicago was given a new twist by William Foote Whyte.
Along with the influence of Hughes and Blumer, another influence on the thinking of this cohort of graduate students was William Foote Whyte, the author of Street Corner Society with its "intimate observation of criminal activity and of its connection to corrupt political...
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 Buy.com - Participant Observer: An Autobiography : William Foote Whyte : ISBN 087546324X
Whyte reflects with candor and sometimes great amusement on the years of his childhood, his academic education, and his marriage.
Whyte listened to what workers told him, gave their views weight in his recommendations to decision makers, and eventually became a powerful voice for greater worker participation and workplace democracy.
William Foote Whyte is known for a classic--and best-selling-- sociological study of Italian-American gangs in Boston's North End, STREET CORNER SOCIETY (1943).
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 MONDRAGÓN'S ANSWERS TO UTOPIA'S PROBLEMS*
With the increasing sophistication of technical and managerial skills required to sustain a competitive industrial position, the ratio was raised to 4.5:1, and in 1987 to the present level (Whyte and Whyte, 1991, 44-45).
(Bradley and Gelb, 1982, 1987; Whyte and Whyte, 129-222)
Whyte, William Foote, and Kathleen King Whyte (1988, 1991), Making Mondragon: The Growth and Dynamics of the Worker Cooperative Complex, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University ILR Press, 1988 (2nd ed.
www.ac.wwu.edu /~khoover/Mondragon.html   (7513 words)

  
 Whyte, William Foote: Street Corner Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Whyte, William Foote Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum.
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.
By mapping the intricate social worlds of street gangs and "corner boys," Whyte was among the first to demonstrate that a poor community need not be socially disorganized.
www.press.uchicago.edu /cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/12361.ctl   (268 words)

  
 essays research papers - William Foote Whyte's Corner Boys
Whyte’s hypothesis was to study the bases of group cohesion, and of the subordination, super ordination of its members; and to work out and determining the position of corner gangs in the social structure of the community.
On one of his research methods he observes that when the leader originates action for the group, he does not act as if his followers were all of equal rank.
What I think Whyte means by “leader ship is a product of social interaction” is all about people looking up to this one leader.
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 William Foote Whyte - Wikipedia
Whyte, der aus in einer Akademikerfamilie in der oberen Mittelschicht aufwuchs zeigte schon früh Interesse an der Schriftstellerei, Wirtschaft und sozialen Reformen.
Selbst zwei Jahre Rehabilitation konnten nicht verhindern dass Whyte für den Rest seines Lebens auf Krücken angewiesen war.
William Foote Whyte, Die Street Corner Society: Die Sozialstruktur eines Italienerviertels.
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Foote_Whyte   (276 words)

  
 Political Film Society - The Art of War
But then sociologists never went to the poorer parts of town, with all the garbage, rats, and other signs of squalor -- that is, until sociologist William Foote Whyte's classic book Streetcorner Society (1943) buried that conception after a year of observation in the Italian working class part of Boston.
Whyte marveled at how well slum residents related to one another in a communitarian manner.
The social problem, in short, was that mainstream society refused to deal with the "lower classes," and the implication was that "war on poverty" programs had a chance of working.
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 Essay Wiz - Helping to make writing essays a breeze... - 009-014
This is a 10 page paper discussing the methodology used in William Foote Whyte’s “Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum”.
Whyte worked like an anthropologist and immersed himself in the lives of the men he studied and in some instances came quite close to “going native” which is one of the greatest risks of participatory observation.
After his period of field research, Whyte commented additionally on the effects of his method in regards to his subject matter and also what affects the study and publication may have on the central characters within the work Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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 William Foote Whyte
William Foote Whyte has been described as "a great social scientist (who describes himself as a "behavioral scientist, concentrating on the study of organizations") best known for his 1943 book, Street Corner Society".
William Foote Whyte and Damon Boynton (editors), Higher-yielding human systems for agriculture, 1983
Warner Woodworth, Christopher Meek, William Foote Whyte (editors), Industrial Democracy.
runeberg.org /authors/whytewim.html   (174 words)

  
 Chapter 2 - Why Teams are Important - Lesson 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Bales's discovery of the so-called J-curve of verbal commitment within teams, whereby groups, regardless of size or purpose, tend to demonstrate the same patterns of verbal activity by members, echoes Bion's suggestion that teams have their own identities separate from the individuals involved in them (Robinson, 1984).
Evidence of the importance of team impact on the individual was reported during the 1950s and early 1960s by Solomon Asch and William Foote Whyte.
Using amateur sporting events as a research arena, Whyte found that individual performance is determined more by social status than by pure talent (Robinson, 1984).
www.cmaa.org /prodev/bmiteam/whyteam/page4.asp   (1218 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum: Books: William Foote Whyte   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Up to that time, social scientists generally studied the U.S. society as a whole--while it was considered standard practice for Margaret Meade to journey to an island in the South Pacific to study the sexual mores of neolithic villagers, the prospect of Mr.
Whyte going across town to concentrate his study on the social, educational, and vocational development of the sons and daughters of immigrants was revolutionary in the early 1940s.
Whyte buried himself in the work, to the extent of moving in to an apartment in the neighborhood and learning to speak fluent Italian.
www.amazon.com /Street-Corner-Society-Structure-Italian/dp/0226895459   (1480 words)

  
 UPHS: News and Periodicals:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
William Foote Whyte Career Award Acknowledges Excellence in Applied Sociology
This award, presented annually by the American Sociological Association (ASA), recognizes academics who take their work in sociology and put it into practice.
Bestowed by the Section on Sociological Practice of the ASA, the award is named after the author of Street Corner Society, William Foote Whyte, for his distinguished contributions to labor and industrial relations.
www.uphs.upenn.edu /news/News_Releases/apr00/socaward.shtml   (440 words)

  
 Faculty
Greenwood, Davydd J., William Foote Whyte and Ira Harkavy.
Whyte, William F. (1991) Participatory Action Research: New Forms of Participation in
Whyte, William F. "Advancing Scientific Knowledge Through Participatory Action Research." Sociological Forum, 4, 3: 367-85.
www.fieldmuseum.org /urbanresearch/institute_bibliography.html   (509 words)

  
 AltaMira Press: About AltaMira Press
AltaMira Press is a full service publisher of all five fields of anthropology with products ranging from college undergraduate textbooks to graduate and supplementary textbooks, academic monographs, reference books, and tools for applied anthropologists.
We have strong lists in anthropological theory and methods, including such noted authors as Marvin Harris, Russ Bernard, Harry Wolcott, and William Foote Whyte.
A centerpiece of this list is the Ethnographer's Toolkit, a 7 volume set outlining the basics of anthropological methods for applied anthropologists and others.
www.altamirapress.com /RLA/wepublishin/anthropology.shtml   (124 words)

  
 Price Compare Books by William Whyte: Spot Cost   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
William H. Whyte - Project for Public Spaces Inc
William Foote Whyte - University Of Chicago Press
William H. Whyte - University of Pennsylvania Press
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 Textbooks by William Foote Whyte - Direct Textbook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Textbooks by William Foote Whyte - Direct Textbook
Human relations in the restaurant industry / by William Foote Whyte by William Foote Whyte
Organizing for Agricultural Development: Human Aspects in the Utilization of Science and Technology by William Foote Whyte
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 Street corner society : the social struc… by William Foote Whyte | LibraryThing
Street corner society : the social struc… by William Foote Whyte
Street corner society : the social structure of an Italian slum
City : rediscovering the center by William H. Whyte
www.librarything.com /isbn/0226895459   (346 words)

  
 Countrybookshop.co.uk - Creative Problem Solving in the Field
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William Foote Whyte looks back on a pioneering career which has revolutionized the way social structures and the individuals within them are viewed.
The book also provides a guide to the practical and conceptual complexities of fieldwork.
www.countrybookshop.co.uk /books/index.phtml?whatfor=076198920X   (92 words)

  
 A Consummate Teacher: A Review of Participant Observer: An Autobiography, by William Foote Whyte -- Horvath 30 (4): 477 ...
A Consummate Teacher: A Review of Participant Observer: An Autobiography, by William Foote Whyte -- Horvath 30 (4): 477 -- The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
A Consummate Teacher: A Review of Participant Observer: An Autobiography, by William Foote Whyte
to discussing the private life of Whyte and the linkages between
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 Anne Whyte Books, Book Price Comparison at 130 bookstores
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 Participatory Action Research:0803937431:Whyte, William :eCampus.com
PAR IN INDUSTRY - William Foote Whyte, Davydd J Greenwood and Peter Lazes
The Role of the Social Scientist in Participatory Action research - Douglas E Horton
Ensuring Relevance and Conributing to the Knowledge Base - William Foote Whyte
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 The Alberta Social Credit Party - Reading Material
Making Mondragon: William Foote Whyte and Kathleen King Whyte
We Build the Road as We Travel: Roy Morrison
Secrets of the Temple, How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country: William Greider
www.socialcredit.com /reading.htm   (478 words)

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