Street Corner Society Methodology Reviewed

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Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum was William Foote Whyte's introduction of the technique of participant observation. Since its publication in 1943, it has become a textbook for the science. This paper analyzes this methodology, and in particular the effect the book and methods have had on sociology and the participants involved. This paper has ten pages and eleven sources are listed in the bibliography.