Street Corner Society

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About “Street Corner Society”

Street Corner Society is an ethnography written by William Foote Whyte, published in 1943 as his first book. It received little attention upon initial publication, but after being reissued in 1955 it became a bestseller and a standard college text, establishing Whyte's reputation as a pioneer in participant observation. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)

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1943

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