See also: Whyte

Born the June 27th 1914 and died the July 16th 2000, William Foote Whyte was eminent a American Sociologue especially known for its ethnological study of urban Sociologie, Street Corner Society .

Pioneer of the participating Observation, it lived four years in a community Italy of Boston whereas it studied in addition with Harvard with an aim of analyzing the social organization of the Gang S of the North End.

Biography

Originating in the higher middle-classes, Whyte rather early expressed its interest for the writing, the economy and the reforms social. After having obtained the diploma of the Swarthmore College, it was selected to be one of the participants of the program of the Junior Fellows by the means which it could make his most famous study. After this one, it integrated the Université of Chicago. Street Corner Society was consequently published by University off Chicago Close in 1943.

It spent one year to be taught with the Université of Oklahoma but was struck by the Polio in 1943 and had to spend two years of re-establishment to Warm Springs Foundation. He was only partially cured and went thereafter only with two canes and of the orthopedic fasteners until the end of its days.

It returned some time to the University of Chicago in 1944 then entered to the School off Industrial and Labor Relations of the Université Cornell in 1948. It remained there until the end of its career. It is there that he worked on the social reformism and changes by concentrating his efforts on the restitution of the right to vote to those which were private in fact and on the filling of the gap between the rich person and the poor. He studied on this occasion of the Coopérative S industrial or rural of the Venezuela, of the Peru, the Guatemala and the Basque Country Spanish.



Whyte wrote hundreds of articles and twenty works including one Autobiographie. Regarded as a pioneer of industrial sociology, he was president of the American Sociological Association in 1981 (72e) but also of the American Anthropological Association. He died by leaving his Helen wife alone with his two sons and of the girls.

Works

• Street Society Corner. Social The Structure off year Italian Slum , Chicago, University off Chicago Near, 1943. (French Translation: Street Corner Society , foreword of Henri Peretz, Paris, the Discovery, 1995)

• Participant To observe: Year Autobiography , Cornell University Near, trade paperback, 1994 - ISBN 0875463258.
• Creative Problem Solving in the Field: Reflections there is Career , Rowman and Littlefield, trade paperback, 1997 - ISBN 0761989218 and ISBN 076198920X.

See too

Related articles

• participating Observation

• List of the presidents of the American Association of sociology

External bonds

• Photography of Whyte on the site of the “American Sociological Association”