Laud Humphreys received his divinity degree from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and spent fourteen years in the ministry of the Episcopal Church. After returning to graduate school, he received his Ph.D. in sociology from Washington University in 1968. Dr. Humphreys taught at SUNY Albany, Southern Illinois University, and until his death in 1988 was professor of sociology at Pitzer College in Claremont, California.
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, 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 posing as an initiate, the author was able to engage in systematic observation of homosexual acts in public settings, and later to develop a more complete picture of those involved by interviewing them in their homes, again without revealing their unwitting participation in his study.
This enlarged edition of Tearoom Trade includes the original text, together with a retrospect, written by Nicholas von Hoffman, Irving Louis Horowitz, Lee Rainwater, Donald P. Warwick, and Myron Glazer. 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 the book's initial critics and proponents. Humphreys added a postscript and his views on the opinion expressed in the retrospect.
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非常完整和嚴謹的學術研究,研究同性性行為而非同性戀。第一章概括公共廁所的物理特質,第二章比喻偷窺狂講述方法論(私以為並不涉及倫理道德),所使用的記錄錶格很專業,第三章談及性行為中的規範和流動的角色扮演,第四章分步解釋性行為具體發生的步驟(如何在沒有語言錶達下達成默契),為瞭避免攻受男女這些概念使用insertee/insertor和主動/被動。第五章談及警察(可買通)、勒索逮捕、青少年騷擾和傳染疾病的可能風險。第六章以隔壁人為標題,對參與群體進行婚姻和職業的四大分類,概括群體特質和錶現。第七章談論群體的政治經濟文化立場,齣乎意料的保守甚至維護體製。第八章總結公共廁所的便利、隱蔽、多樣、不涉個人關係,均得到雙方的或許,錶達同性性行為的理解和些微辯護。此書的研究價值和曆史意義值得五星 M
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评分經典之作,對公共場所裏的同性性行為的觀察細緻入微,理論解釋的部分也頗有說服力。但我很懷疑作者在講述研究方法的時候是否足夠坦誠,畢竟他當時未公開齣櫃,也許會隱瞞一些田野觀察時自身的行為以及取得被采訪者信任的方法。p.s. 男票說,柏林的公園小樹林裏男男們如同本書裏描述的那樣沉默,然而清華大學小樹林裏大傢卻聊得很歡。有趣的對比。
评分我不是社會學的學生,這本書隻能說讓我大開瞭眼界,更讓我沒想到是1970年前後做齣的研究。同性戀在如今這個社會,你說反對它,可以被口水淹死,但是有多少人真的想過同性戀和同性戀行為的區彆。這本書給我最大的啓發(1)在tearoom發生同性性交行為的,非同性戀已婚男居多數 (2)性是本能,但是當性行為和不負責任,追求刺激,無關個人情感聯係在一起,我更理解上帝毀瞭所多瑪的原因。(3) 作者認為公共場閤同性性行為對社會不構成危害,所以不需要有社會條款和法律製裁,我不敢苟同。P.S. 有評論說作者因為課題調查過於敏感而被取消博士資格,我不明白瞭,難道當時IRB沒有審過麼?作者調查手法不對為何不在當時立即指齣?所有信息不都是嚴格保密麼?要是我一番辛苦博士論文完瞭卻被取消資格,肯定氣病!
评分A participant observer is interested in people as they are,not as he thinks they ought to be according to some standard of his own.Human need outlets .
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