| William Foote Whyte |
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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 a graduate 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 Rehabilitation at the Warm Springs Foundation . Rehabilitation was only partially successful; Whyte walked with two canes and arm braces for the rest of his life. He briefly returned to the University of Chicago in 1944, then joined the School Of Industrial And Labor Relations at Cornell University in 1948, remaining at Cornell for 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 in industrial and rural workers' Cooperative s in Venezuela , Peru , Guatemala and in the Basque region of Spain . He authored hundreds of articles and 20 books including an Autobiography . He is considered a pioneer in Industrial Sociology . He served as the president of the American Sociological Association in 1981 and also of the American Anthropological Association . At his death he was survived by his wife, Helen, two sons and two daughters. FURTHER READING
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