Search Results - Whyte, William Foote
William Foote Whyte
![William Foote Whyte at home in [[Lansing, New York](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/William_Foote_Whyte_at_home_1996.jpg)
William Foote Whyte (June 27, 1914 – July 16, 2000) 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. Provided by Wikipedia