Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum William Foote Whyte
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

The Corner Boys (Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum). ʼn标题: 一个意大利人贫民区的社会结构 原作名: Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum 译者: 黄育馥 出版年: 1994-9 页数: 503 定价: 35.00元 装帧: 平装 丛书: 汉译世界学术名著丛书·政治法律社会. If a certain As Robert Ardrey (1966: 223) observed some time ago, “Dominance and subordination characterize all animal societies to the possible exception of certain schooling fish.” According to Viewed from the street corner of Shelby Street, Tony Cataldo was a big shot . Domination occurs when an individual or group participating in a social act steers the direction of its development, according to their particular preferences (Athens, 1998: 675). As an example of urban ethnography, in 1943 a famous descriptive case study of street-corner inhabitants written by William Foote Whyte was published as Street Corner Society. Street Corner Society is one of a handful of works that can justifiably be called classics of sociological research. His Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum (Whyte 1943) is one of the great works of urban sociology and has sold over a quarter of a million copies (one of the best-selling English-language sociology books in history). "Street Corner Society" is one of a handful of works that can justifiably be called classics of sociological research. Collected Papers: Volume I, The Problem of Social Reality. By living Through this his account of the Italian Americans living in slum, Whyte maps the intricate social worlds of a street society, demonstrates that a poor community is socially not disorganized and sets in his research a standard for vivid portrayals of real people in real situations. William Foote Whyte's “Street Corner Society” is the ethnography of an Italian slum, which he named “Cornerville.” In its conception The study therefore offers a workable tool for the understanding of urban social structure. Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum.