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.
4 有用 Compliment 2014-06-02 03:04:44
陈阳研究方法课的Reading....延续了陈阳重口的特点…
0 有用 水草狗 2016-09-09 23:55:40
对于不做ethnography的人来说,每一本ethnography都长一样……口味再重也不能例外……夜里看到三点,唯一的感想是:到底出于什么学术目的,非要费尽周折围观人家BJ呢(很多事情其实访谈也可以吧)……
0 有用 Fay Kellum 2012-08-29 18:34:28
research ethics
1 有用 Tina 2018-12-28 09:04:02
饱受争议的一本书,我不太明白为啥作者要“剑走偏锋”。他在公共卫生间里的“观察”等等,完全跟他从警察那里收集家庭地址,电话公司那里收集职业、家庭住址没有什么关系啊(姑且还不谈研究伦理)
0 有用 Ben 2010-03-20 01:59:33
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 .
0 有用 期酱 2024-05-07 00:51:22 广东
我们站街女要时刻牢记在心,千万不能对客人动情,因为客人反馈“I don't want to know those men in there. I'm here for sex--not friendship”
0 有用 不爱吃零食 2024-03-13 05:13:57 美国
这本历史性的意义在于引发了一场对research ethics的讨论。之前和朋友还在聊怎么研究男同和白袜、内裤、篮球鞋、体育生、sm等等,participant observation难道需要我观察他们真的在舔舐这些东西吗,那不就是另一个“tearoom trade”。怎么说呢我觉得这本很重要的一点是作者指出了他研究的不是同性恋群体,而是参与同性性行为的这些人(其中大部分并不认为自己是gay),所... 这本历史性的意义在于引发了一场对research ethics的讨论。之前和朋友还在聊怎么研究男同和白袜、内裤、篮球鞋、体育生、sm等等,participant observation难道需要我观察他们真的在舔舐这些东西吗,那不就是另一个“tearoom trade”。怎么说呢我觉得这本很重要的一点是作者指出了他研究的不是同性恋群体,而是参与同性性行为的这些人(其中大部分并不认为自己是gay),所以就让我在想之前朋友和我聊说“厕所性爱”是男同queering public space的一种方式的观点是不是还合法。作者最后的结论我还挺喜欢的,他说自己觉得这并不是应该被指责/审判的一种行为,至少在这样行为的list里面priority很低。其实主观上我没那么喜欢这本,但作者确实写的很好。 (展开)
0 有用 echo自由自在 2023-04-25 10:03:27 上海
2020年3月下载的电子书,当时需要反复查单词才能读懂一段,后来直接放弃了。现在英语水平上了一个台阶,虽然不能全部读懂,但也算真正在理解了。
1 有用 葱爆咸烧白 2022-04-26 00:21:10
Splendid!!!非常有启发性的民族志+科研伦理素材,也真心佩服作者在厕所做研究的毅力。
0 有用 helenharris 2021-11-30 00:32:35
直觉上让我很不舒服的一个“缺德”研究。附录里几篇关于伦理的讨论意义更大。