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Street Corner Society
First edition
AuthorWilliam Foote Whyte
Original titleStreet Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum
SubjectEthnography
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
Publication date
1943
Pages364

Street Corner Society (originally titled Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum) is an ethnography written by William Foote Whyte and published in 1943. It was Whyte's first book. It received little attention when it was first published, but upon being reissued in 1955 it became a bestseller as well as a standard college text, and established Whyte's reputation as a pioneer in participant observation.

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