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Almost 50 years after its publication,Street Corner Society was the focus of new scholarly attention inReframing Organizational Culture and a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Ethnology. Whyte comments on the issues raised regarding the intellectual background of the book and his relations with the community studied. He also discusses the new style of criticism embodied in critical epistemology in its relations with social science.
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Whyte, W.F. RevisitingStreet Corner Society . Sociol Forum 8, 285–298 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01115494
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01115494