Participant observer : an autobiography / William Foote Whyte.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whyte, William Foote, 1914-2000, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociologists--United States--Biography.

Sociologists.

Whyte, William Foote, 1914-2000.

Whyte, William Foote.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : ILR Press, [1994]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501744921

1501744925

OCLC:

1129161307