Tearoom trade : impersonal sex in public places /
From the time of its first publication in 1970, this book 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,...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Aldine Pub. Co.,
1975.
Chicago : 1975. |
| Edition: | Enl. ed. |
| Series: | Observations.
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Table of Contents:
- Public settings for "private" encounters
- Methods: the sociologist as voyeur
- Rules and roles
- Patterns of collective action
- Risks of the game
- The people next door
- The breastplate of righteousness
- Kicks, commitment, and social control
- Postscript: a question of ethics
- Retrospect: ethical issues in social research
- Sociological snoopers and journalistic moralizers / Nicholas von Hoffman, Irving Louis Horowitz, Lee Rainwater
- Tearoom trade: means and ends in social research / Donald P. Warwick
- Impersonal sex / Myron Glazer
- Retrospect: ethical issues in social research / Laud Humphreys.