Year: 1993
Author: William Foote Whyte
Genre: sociology
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press, 4th edition
ISBN: 0226895459, 978-0226895451
English language
Format: DjVu
Number of Pages: 418

Classical sociological study of Ulyama White, devoted to the Italian gangs living in the slums of the Boston district of North End (in the book - "Cornerville"), has not lost its relevance (first edition - 1943) and is a model for high-quality urban ethnography.

List of Illustrations
Preface to the Fourth Edition
Introduction: Cornerville and Its People
Part I: Corner Boys and College Boys
I. Doc and His Boys
1. The Members of the Gang
2. Bowling and Social Ranking
3. The Nortons and the Aphrodite Club
4. Doc's Political Campaign
5. Disintegration
II. Chick and His Club
1. The Story of Chick Morelli
2. Organizing the Club
3. Social Activities
4. Opposition to Chick
5. The Second Season
6. Disintegration
7. Republican Politics
8. Chick Morelli's Career
III. Social Structure and Social Mobility
1. The Nature of the Groups
2. The Social Role of the Settlement House
3. Loyalty and Social Mobility
Part II. Racketeers and Politicians
IV. The Social Structure of Racketeering
1. History of the Rackets
2. Organization of the Policy Racket
3. Relations with the Police
4. The Racketeer in His Social Setting
V. The Racketeers in the Cornerville S. and A. Club
1. Tony Cataldo and the Shelby Street Boys
2. Organizing the Club
3. Reorganizing the Club
4. The Political Issue
5. The Crisis and Tony Cataldo
6. Tony's Beano Party
7. The New Administration
8. Carlo and Tony
VI. Politics and the Social Structure
1. The Changing Nature of Political Organization
2. The Political Career
3. Organizing the Campaign
4. Political Rallies
5. Election Day
6. The Nature of Political Obligations
Part III. Conclusion
1. The Gang and the Individual
2. The Social Structure
3. The Problem of Cornerville
Appendixes
Appendix A: On the Evolution of "Street Corner Society"
1. Personal Background
2. Finding Cornerville
3. Planning the Study
4. First Efforts
5. Beginning with Doc
6. Training in Participant Observation
7. Venture into Politics
8. Back on Norton Street
9. Replanning the Research
10. Again in the Corner Gang
11. Studying Racketeering
12. Marching on City Hall
13. Farewell to Cornerville
14. Cornerville Revisited
15. Getting Street Corner Society Accepted as a Doctoral Thesis
16. Revisiting Street Corner Society Fifty Years Later
Appendix B: The Whyte Impact on an Underdog by Angelo Ralph Orlandella
Appendix C: Selected References
Index

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