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Hollister, John Walker.

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Reconstructing social theory at a cruising site.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Reconstructing social theory at a cruising site./
Author:	Hollister, John Walker.
Description:	290 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Martin Murray.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-03A.
Subject:	Geography. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3047686
ISBN:	9780493617831

Reconstructing social theory at a cruising site.
Hollister, John Walker.

Reconstructing social theory at a cruising site. - 290 p.

Adviser: Martin Murray.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, 2002.

Cruising sites are places where men anonymously seek sexual contact with each other. They appear to happen automatically despite efforts to start them or clamp down. They depend on conducive places and a stream of men who recognize them. The sites are as disconnected from structures of most sociological inquiry as are the men from their own names. Yet hourly shifts in demographics correspond to cycles of work, home, and leisure. They are camouflaged; communication among the cruisers relies on particularities of place. Sex is relatively safe. The main danger is police harrassment. They are structured by variations in how a site is perceived, as by regulars and newcomers, those who figured it out and those shown how it works, those who come alone or with friends.

ISBN: 9780493617831Subjects--Topical Terms:

524010
Geography.

Reconstructing social theory at a cruising site.
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520 $a Cruising sites are places where men anonymously seek sexual contact with each other. They appear to happen automatically despite efforts to start them or clamp down. They depend on conducive places and a stream of men who recognize them. The sites are as disconnected from structures of most sociological inquiry as are the men from their own names. Yet hourly shifts in demographics correspond to cycles of work, home, and leisure. They are camouflaged; communication among the cruisers relies on particularities of place. Sex is relatively safe. The main danger is police harrassment. They are structured by variations in how a site is perceived, as by regulars and newcomers, those who figured it out and those shown how it works, those who come alone or with friends.
520 $a Similarities with Internet discussions suggest rethinking place in terms of marking, accessibility, and visibility. The long history of cruising requires rethinking continuity without essentialist assumptions. Contrasts between the meaning of sexuality there and in gay activist groups challenge assumptions about gay history at the level of entire cultures. Using emplaced situations instead of individuals as a unit of analysis challenges intersectionist models of identity. Without falling into the trap of unmasking identities as mere social constructions, reconstruct them in terms of the situations where they matter.
520 $a These arguments are based on an extended case method field study of a highway rest area in upstate New York with interviews of nineteen participants. Karl Popper's anti-essentialism guides a search for explanations in terms of how things work, rather than what they are or are not, without essentializing words, categories, or standpoints.
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