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Full-time participant observation over an extended period of time tends to be an age-graded phenomenon. Such studies are most likely to be done by yo… - William Foote Whyte
" "Full-time participant observation over an extended period of time tends to be an age-graded phenomenon. Such studies are most likely to be done by young people, in our student years. When we are established professionals, with teaching or other professional responsibilities, we are unlikely to have the time and the motivation to make such a full commitment.
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About William Foote Whyte
(June 27, 1914 – July 16, 2000) was an American sociologist, chiefly known for his ethnographic study in , . A pioneer in participant observation, he lived for four years in an Italian community in Boston while a Junior Fellow at Harvard researching social relations of street gangs in Boston's North End.
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