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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Humphreys, Laud
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Aldine Pub. Co., 1975.
Chicago : 1975.
Edition:Enl. ed.
Series:Observations.
Subjects:
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.