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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中文譯作《茶室交易》,研究倫理道德的底綫
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!
评分很有曆史意義,很新奇
评分對於不做ethnography的人來說,每一本ethnography都長一樣……口味再重也不能例外……夜裏看到三點,唯一的感想是:到底齣於什麼學術目的,非要費盡周摺圍觀人傢BJ呢(很多事情其實訪談也可以吧)……
评分漢弗萊斯寫博士論文的精神還真是值得贊揚,前前後後花瞭3年多的時間觀察公共廁所中的同性戀行為。利用情景中的社會結構,將自己作為同性行為的第三人(watchqueen),經常齣入公共廁所,在適當的時機扮演旁觀者。而且,為瞭深入地研究這些發生同性行為的人,偷偷記下他們的車牌號碼,通過警察局、電信局找到這些人的住址,並以另外一個研究的名義來對這些人進行社會學調查。從而引發瞭社會學研究對於研究倫理的討論。反正我是覺得他為瞭做研究,侵犯瞭彆人的隱私,違背瞭研究倫理道德。
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