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Is Whyte a participant or observer? How does this affect
his research findings? |
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Acceptance: Can he ever be an "insider"? |
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Is there just one "insider group" [Norton vs.
Community Club] |
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What lengths do you go to in order to assimilate?
Boundary Issues: mild (links with political alliance); (senator/mayor and
repeat voting) to severe (backing one member of the group over another)
interference in study |
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Is assimilation the issue? What about bias? [His views or
the views of North/Community Club] |
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Voice: Do you think Whyte conveys issues and concerns of
these men, or his own, or his own mixed with Doc? (clearly a group leader) |
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Re-Alignment: re-connecting to Cornerville after
engagement in politics: How does this affect Whyte’s overall sense of
Cornerville as a system? [his move to study to the social structure of the
society and the impact upon individuals] |
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Why does time matter? [Studying group at one point in
time over a period of time- connections, dynamics, etc. To quote Whyte:
"I learned to understand a group only through observing how it changed
over time"] |
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Is there a central contact person? How does this affect
Whyte’s need to move beyond these two groups and into other aspects of
community life? [Racket, family, police] |
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Responsibility to the group: do we engage in harm or good
for our subjects- especially as an unintended consequence of our work? |
