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Title: Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum by William Foote Whyte ISBN: 0-226-89545-9 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: June, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: ground breaking work
Comment: I read this book eight years ago on rainy Saturday--I was a student at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, and I decided to pass the afternoon in Center's library. I picked this volume off the shelves because the title sounded interesting. At the time, I did not realize that book is a classic in the field of social science.
When it was published in the 1940s, it was one of the very first attempts to apply the techniques of modern social research to an American subculture--in this case, to the inhabitants of a poor Italian neighborhood in a large, unspecified northeastern city (Boston). 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.
This book is a blueprint for how social research on a subculture should be done. If it, at times, seems plodding and stilted to twenty first century readers, that is because it represents a prototype for a sort of study that has been replicated and perfected through these past sixty years.
The book represents a look at a segment of American society, as it existed at a specific point in history (the tail end of the depression)--much of the society Whyte studied had already changed by the time the book saw print (by 1943, one must assume that most of the young men profiled in the study were in uniform), however that is true to some extent of all social research.
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Title: Urban Villagers, Rev & Exp Ed by Herbert J. Gans ISBN: 0029112400 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1982 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections, and Imaginations in a Postmodern World by Michael Burawoy, Joseph A. Blum, Et Al, Sheba George, Zsuzsa Gille, Teresa Gowan, Lynne Haney, Maren Klawiter, Steve H. Lopez, Sean Riain ISBN: 0520222164 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 02 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) by Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, Linda L. Shaw ISBN: 0226206815 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: July, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School by Barrie Thorne ISBN: 0813519233 Publisher: Rutgers University Press Pub. Date: April, 1993 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Analyzing Social Settings: A Guide to Qualitative Observation and Analysis by John Lofland, Lyn H. Lofland ISBN: 0534247806 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Pub. Date: 08 November, 1994 List Price(USD): $37.95 |
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