"ASA Award Presentation to William Foote Whyte by Jacqueline Scheier" Audio-Visual
Materials, 1988-1994
Collection Number: /4149 AV
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
"ASA Award Presentation to William Foote Whyte by Jacqueline Scheier" Audio-Visual
Materials, 1988-1994
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
/4149 AV
Abstract:
Recording of the ASA Award presentation to WF Whyte by Jacqueline Scherer in August
of 1988
Creator:
Whyte, William Foote
Scheier, Jacqueline
Quanitities:
0.61 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
William Foote Whyte (June 27, 1914 July 16, 2000) was a sociologist chiefly known
for his ethnographic study in urban sociology, Street Corner Society.
Whyte, from an upper middle class background, showed an early interest in writing,
economics and social reform. After graduating from Swarthmore College, he was selected
for the Junior Fellows program, where his landmark research was done. After his research
in Boston, he entered the sociology doctoral program at the University of Chicago.
Street Corner Society was published by the University of Chicago Press in 1943. He
spent a year teaching at the University of Oklahoma, but developed polio in 1943 and
spent two years in physical therapy at the Warm Springs Foundation. Rehabilitation
was only partially successful; Whyte walked with a cane for the rest of his life,
and used two arm crutches in his later years.
He briefly returned to the University of Chicago in 1944, then joined the New York
State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University in 1948, remaining
at Cornell for the remainder of his career. He worked for social reform and social
change, directing his efforts toward "empowering the disenfranchized and narrowing
the gap between rich and poor." He studied industrial and agricultural workers and
workers' cooperatives in Venezuela, Peru, Guatemala and in the Basque region of Spain,
as well as in the United States. He authored hundreds of articles and 20 books including
an autobiography. He is considered a pioneer in industrial sociology.
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"ASA Award Presentation to William Foote Whyte by Jacqueline Scheier" Audio-Visual
Materials #/4149 AV. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives,
Cornell University Library.
Related Collections: /4149: William Foote Whyte Additional Papers /4151: William Foote Whyte Additional Papers /4163: William Foote Whyte Additional Papers /4168: William Foote Whyte Additional Papers /4173: William Foote Whyte Additional Papers /4087: William Foote Whyte Additional Papers /4094: William Foote Whyte Additional Papers /4102: William Foote Whyte Additional Papers /4058: William Foote Whyte Office Records
Names:
Whyte, William Foote, 1914-2000
Scheier, Jacqueline
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 2 |
ASA Award Presentation to WF Whyte by Jacqueline Scherer - 8/1988
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1988 |