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- catalog abstract "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, and useful contribution to our understanding of "deviant" sexual activity. Describing impersonal, anonymous sexual encounters in public restrooms - "tearooms" in the argot - the book explored the behavior of men whose closet homosexuality was kept from their families and neighbors. By combining participant observation with structured as well as informal interviews, Tearoom Trade still furnishes a controversial example of recent social science methods. This enlarged edition includes the original text, together with a retrospect. The material added includes a perspective on the social scientist at work and the ethical problems to which that work may give rise, along with debate by t.".
- catalog contributor b905142.
- catalog created "1975.".
- catalog date "1975".
- catalog date "1975.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1975.".
- catalog description "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, and useful contribution to our understanding of "deviant" sexual activity. Describing impersonal, anonymous sexual encounters in public restrooms - "tearooms" in the argot - the book explored the behavior of men whose closet homosexuality was kept from their families and neighbors. By combining participant observation with structured as well as informal interviews, Tearoom Trade still furnishes a controversial example of recent social science methods. This enlarged edition includes the original text, together with a retrospect. The material added includes a perspective on the social scientist at work and the ethical problems to which that work may give rise, along with debate by t.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 238 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0202302822".
- catalog identifier "0202302830 (pbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Observations".
- catalog issued "1975".
- catalog issued "1975.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Aldine Pub. Co.,".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "HQ76 .H78 1975".
- catalog subject "Homosexuality United States.".
- catalog subject "Homosexuality.".
- catalog subject "Male homosexuality United States.".
- catalog subject "Men Sexual behavior United States.".
- catalog subject "Public sex United States.".
- catalog subject "Public toilets United States.".
- catalog subject "WM 615 H927t 1975".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Tearoom trade : impersonal sex in public places / Laud Humphreys.".
- catalog type "text".