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He has been engaged in community and industrial studies since 1936, and is currently president-elect of the American Sociological Association as well as former president of the Industrial Relations Research Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology.
Donald McCall was formerly a student of Professor Whyte.
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Whyte, W.F., McCall, D. Self-help economics. Society 17, 22–28 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02694801
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