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William Whyte

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William Whyte
AboutWilliam H. Whyte (1917–1999) was an American journalist and urbanist whose 1956 book The Organization Man analyzed the conformist corporate culture of postwar America. He later became known for his observational studies of urban public spaces.

William Whyte

Author of The Organization Man, cited in The Future of American Sports. Whyte’s argument — that mid-century American values shifted from individualism toward collectivist corporate loyalty — is used as the frame for how football, the sport of the corporation, mirrored the era of the collectivist “organization man.”

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