256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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From the time of its first publication, 'Tearoom Trade' engendered controversy. It was also accorded an unusual amount of praise for a first book on a marginal, intentionally self-effacing population by a previously unknown sociologist. The book was quickly recognized as an important, imaginative, and useful contribution to our understanding of "deviant" sexual activity. Describing impersonal,... Read more
1. Public Settings for Private Encounters 2. Methods: The Sociologist as Voyeur 3. Rules and Roles 4. Patterns of Collective Action 5. Risks of the Game 6. The People Next Door 7. The Breastplate of Righteousness 8. Kicks, Commitment, and Social Control, Postscript: A Question of Ethics, Retrospect: Ethical Issues in Social Research, Sociological Snoopers and Journalistic Moralizers, Tearoom Trade: Means and Ends in Social Research, Donald P . Warwick Impersonal Sex, Myron Glazer Retrospect: Ethical Issues in Social Research.
Biography
Humphreys, Laud
