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Participant Observer : An Autobiography / William Foote Whyte.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1994Description: 1 online resource (376 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501744921
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301/.092 20
LOC classification:
  • HM22.U6 W48 1994
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introducing Myself -- 2. Getting Started -- 3. Family Upheaval -- 4. Growing Up -- 5. High School -- 6. Travels in Europe -- 7. College Life -- 8. College Studies -- 9. The Society of Fellows -- 10. Planning My Slum Study -- 11. Learning to Be a Participant Observer -- 12. Kathleen: Discovery and Rediscovery -- 13. Rethinking and Reshaping My North End Study -- 14. Graduate Work in Chicago -- 15. Teaching Schoolteachers Sociology -- 16. Oklahoma and the Phillips Petroleum Company -- 17. Interruption -- 18. The Committee on Human Relations in Industry -- 19. From Restaurant Research to Hotel Action Research -- 20. Studying Union-Management Cooperation -- 21. Moving to Cornell -- 22. Early Years at Cornell -- 23. A Summer Encounter with Sensitivity Training -- 24. Family Crises -- 25. Sabbatical in Venezuela -- 26. Cornell: 1955-1961 -- 27. Introduction to Peru -- 28. Our Year in Peru -- 29. From Industrial to Rural Research -- 30. Political Crisis -- 31. Winding Up the Rural Research Program in Peru -- 32. Finding a New Focus -- 33. Cornell in the 1960s -- 34. From Research to Practice -- 35. Focusing on Employee Ownership -- 36. The New Systems of Work and Participation Program -- 37. Working with Congress -- 38. Becoming Professor Emeritus -- 39. Programs for Employment and Workplace Systems -- 40. Participatory Action Research -- 41. The Book That Would Not Die -- 42. Adjusting to Retirement and Aging -- References -- Index
Summary: While it documents a remarkable career, Participant Observer is also a personal chronicle in which William Foote Whyte reflects on his childhood, his education, his courageous struggles with polio and with the crises of family and academic life. Beginning with the study of gangs in Boston's North End recorded in Street Corner Society, Whyte listened to what working people had to say, becoming a powerful voice for worker participation and workplace democracy. His career is a model for the social sciences, and his story should be read by any serious student of them.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introducing Myself -- 2. Getting Started -- 3. Family Upheaval -- 4. Growing Up -- 5. High School -- 6. Travels in Europe -- 7. College Life -- 8. College Studies -- 9. The Society of Fellows -- 10. Planning My Slum Study -- 11. Learning to Be a Participant Observer -- 12. Kathleen: Discovery and Rediscovery -- 13. Rethinking and Reshaping My North End Study -- 14. Graduate Work in Chicago -- 15. Teaching Schoolteachers Sociology -- 16. Oklahoma and the Phillips Petroleum Company -- 17. Interruption -- 18. The Committee on Human Relations in Industry -- 19. From Restaurant Research to Hotel Action Research -- 20. Studying Union-Management Cooperation -- 21. Moving to Cornell -- 22. Early Years at Cornell -- 23. A Summer Encounter with Sensitivity Training -- 24. Family Crises -- 25. Sabbatical in Venezuela -- 26. Cornell: 1955-1961 -- 27. Introduction to Peru -- 28. Our Year in Peru -- 29. From Industrial to Rural Research -- 30. Political Crisis -- 31. Winding Up the Rural Research Program in Peru -- 32. Finding a New Focus -- 33. Cornell in the 1960s -- 34. From Research to Practice -- 35. Focusing on Employee Ownership -- 36. The New Systems of Work and Participation Program -- 37. Working with Congress -- 38. Becoming Professor Emeritus -- 39. Programs for Employment and Workplace Systems -- 40. Participatory Action Research -- 41. The Book That Would Not Die -- 42. Adjusting to Retirement and Aging -- References -- Index

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While it documents a remarkable career, Participant Observer is also a personal chronicle in which William Foote Whyte reflects on his childhood, his education, his courageous struggles with polio and with the crises of family and academic life. Beginning with the study of gangs in Boston's North End recorded in Street Corner Society, Whyte listened to what working people had to say, becoming a powerful voice for worker participation and workplace democracy. His career is a model for the social sciences, and his story should be read by any serious student of them.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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