Martin S Weinberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 85920 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin S Weinberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin S |
| FAMILY NAME | Weinberg |
| SIGNATURE | WEINBERG M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 63 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 591 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 63 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Bisexuality
Bisexuality is a complex phenomenon involving fluidity in the sex/gender of desired partners and an identity label that is poorly recognized and understood. This contributes to misconceptions that feed into questioning the existence of bisexuality, whether bisexuals are hypersexual, and the extent to which they transmit sexually transmitted infections into the general population. It is also a sexuality that academically remains inadequately theor…
Trans Women Doing Sex in San Francisco
Deviance
This highly successful reader presents the interactionist approach to the study of deviance, examining deviance as a phenomenon that is constituted through social interpretations and the reactions of persons caught up in this social process. This book focuses on issues such as how individuals interpret and label people, how people relate to one another based on these interpretations, and the consequences of these social processes. This perspectiv…
Trans Men
This article examines the experiences of 25 persons who were assigned female status at birth but do not wish to live as women and take on a masculine or queer gender identity. We employ the concept of “gendered embodiment” and introduce the concept of “sexualized embodiment” to highlight what is involved in this process. We ask how experiencing a masculine gender identity is reflexively tied to a trans man's sexuality and the ways in which these …
Bare Bodies
This article examines the role of nude embodiment as it affects sexuality, intimacy, and pleasure when people seek to align their nude body with cultural values. This research, based on open-ended and closed-ended data from 184 young heterosexual adults attending a large Midwestern university, finds the experience of nude embodiment and its effects to be strongly gendered. For example, among both men and women, comfort with one’s nude body is ass…
Pornography, Normalization, and Empowerment
Men Sexually Interested in Transwomen (MSTW)
This article extends research on transgenderism by providing a sociological study of men who are sexually interested in transwomen (MSTW; viz., genetic males who use estrogen to feminize their body but retain their penis). We conducted fieldwork in a bar catering to transwomen and the men who were sexually interested in them, and did on-the-spot interviews with the MSTW. We initially examined the nature of MSTW's sexual attraction to transwomen, …
Identity and Competence
Cultural sociology agrees that meanings attributed to objects vary depending upon the cultural competencies of viewers, but tends to ignore the role of identities in interpretation. This article argues that both identities and competencies influence interpretation. Through an analysis of how 307 undergraduate students at a Midwestern state university interpreted a black-and-white photograph of an individual masturbating, this article finds that a…
Fecal Matters
This article examines fecal matters—namely, the social concerns that can accompany defecation and flatulence. Researching 172 university students, we show how aspects of the socio-cultural context as “embodied” in four groups of participants (heterosexual women and men and non-heterosexual women and men) mediate the operation of the “fecal habitus”—that part of culture that interprets and organizes fecal events (Inglis 2000). The study finds that…
Queering the Interview
Zoophilia in Men
In Memoriam
Men Sex Workers and Other Men Who Have Sex With Men
Bisexuals at Midlife
In the framework of a constructionist approach, a life-course point of view, and traditional concepts borrowed from identity theory, the authors report on a study of fifty-six San Francisco bisexuals. The data show that by midlife, changing life commitments among the participants were associated with a decrease in sexual involvement, a move toward sexual activity with just one sex, a decrease in contact with the bisexual subculture, and a decreas…
Sociocultural correlates of permissive sexual attitudes
In a 1980 publication, Ira Reiss proposed a set of theoretical statements concerning gender roles and sexual customs in Sweden and the United States. He stated that, in comparison to the United States, sexual attitudes are more permissive in Sweden and that factors accounting for these differences include country variations in religiosity and attitudes toward general gender egalitarianism, the naturalism of sex, and the role of government with re…
Gendered Sex Work in the San Francisco Tenderloin
Aids Risk Reduction Strategies Among United States and Swedish Heterosexual University Students
Sexual coercion among university students
Sociocultural theorists, including feminist theorists, propose that the prevalence of sexual coercion in a society is related to male dominance in the social structure and a culture that sustains it. Other theorists also propose that the prevalence of sexual coercion is directly related to the general level of violence in a society. Numerous studies support the views that women in Sweden have more institutional power and social benefits than do w…
Social Class Background, Sexual Attitudes, and Sexual Behavior in a Heterosexual Undergraduate Sample
“If the shoe fits …”
This study of 262 respondents from an organization for homosexual and bisexual foot fetishists provides information from a broader sample than clinical cases and was guided by major ideas found in the literature on sexual fetishism. Some researchers see fetishism as the product of early learning experiences. Results of this study showed such experiences to occur around puberty and to be predominantly positive. Sources of learning were experiences…
Dual Attraction
For the past two generations, extensive research has been conducted on the determinants of homosexuality. But, until now, scant attention has been paid to what is perhaps the most mysterious-and potentially illuminating-variation of human sexual expression, bisexuality. Today, as ignorance and fear of AIDS makes greater awareness of all forms of sexual behavior an urgent matter of private and public consequence, leading sex researchers Martin Wei…
Swedish or American heterosexual college youth
Dual Attraction
For the past two generations, extensive research has been conducted on the determinants of homosexuality. But, until now, scant attention has been paid to what is perhaps the most mysterious--and potentially illuminating--variation of human sexual expression, bisexuality. Today, as ignorance and fear of AIDS make greater awareness of all forms of sexual behaviour an urgent matter of private and public consequence, leading sex researchers Martin W…
Homosexual foot fetishism
Reactions to pornography on a college campus
The Social Constituents of Sadomasochism
Traditional conceptions of sadomasochism are misleading. This is because they are not based on close examination of what the majority of SM participants actually do and how they interpret their own behaviors. Over a period of eight years, we interviewed a variety of SM participants and observed their behavior in many different settings. We found that sadomasochism was constituted by five social features: dominance and submission, role playing, co…
Deviance
This highly successful reader presents the interactionist approach to the study of deviance, examining deviance as a phenomenon that is constituted through social interpretations and the reactions of persons caught up in this social process. This book focuses on issues such as how individuals interpret and label people, how people relate to one another based on these interpretations, and the consequences of these social processes. This perspectiv…
Gay Baths and the Social Organization of Impersonal Sex
The conditions described by males as ideal for impersonal sex include protection; ample, accessible opportunities; a known, shared, and organized reality; bounding of the experience; congeniality; and a comfortable physical setting. This paper examines gay baths in rela-tion to these conditions. It also develops—from the male participants' perspective—a general model of the successful territorial and inter-actional organization of impersonal sex.…
Deviance
Pornography, Normalization, and Empowerment
Black sexuality
Testing the theoretical statements of Alfred Kinsey and James Coleman regarding racial differences in sexual experience (Coleman, 1966; Kinsey, Pomeroy, & Martin, 1948), data from three samples, covering the period 1938–70, are brought to bear on the following hypotheses: (a) Black men and women are more sexually permissive than white men and women, but such differences are more a function of social class than race (Kinsey); and (b) differences i…
Sexual Modesty, Social Meanings, and the Nudist Camp
Sexual Modesty, Social Meanings, and the Nudist Camp Get access Martin S. Weinberg Martin S. Weinberg Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 12, Issue 3, Winter 1965, Pages 311–318, https://doi.org/10.2307/798936 Published: 07 August 2014
Men Sexually Interested in Transwomen (MSTW)
This article extends research on transgenderism by providing a sociological study of men who are sexually interested in transwomen (MSTW; viz., genetic males who use estrogen to feminize their body but retain their penis). We conducted fieldwork in a bar catering to transwomen and the men who were sexually interested in them, and did on-the-spot interviews with the MSTW. We initially examined the nature of MSTW's sexual attraction to transwomen, …
Gendered Sex Work in the San Francisco Tenderloin
Sexual Embourgeoisment? Social Class and Sexual Activity
Using the idea of embourgeoisment, as it appears in stratification literature, that working-class people are increasingly adopting middle-class values and behaviors, this paper examines changes in the relationship between social class and sexual behavior over the last thirty years. Comparing data collected in 1938-63 with data collected in 1969-70, we find the following: For males, there are now similarities between the working and middle classes…
Fecal Matters
This article examines fecal matters—namely, the social concerns that can accompany defecation and flatulence. Researching 172 university students, we show how aspects of the socio-cultural context as “embodied” in four groups of participants (heterosexual women and men and non-heterosexual women and men) mediate the operation of the “fecal habitus”—that part of culture that interprets and organizes fecal events (Inglis 2000). The study finds that…
Sexual coercion among university students
Sociocultural theorists, including feminist theorists, propose that the prevalence of sexual coercion in a society is related to male dominance in the social structure and a culture that sustains it. Other theorists also propose that the prevalence of sexual coercion is directly related to the general level of violence in a society. Numerous studies support the views that women in Sweden have more institutional power and social benefits than do w…
The Study of Social Problems
Zoophilia in Men
Bare Bodies
This article examines the role of nude embodiment as it affects sexuality, intimacy, and pleasure when people seek to align their nude body with cultural values. This research, based on open-ended and closed-ended data from 184 young heterosexual adults attending a large Midwestern university, finds the experience of nude embodiment and its effects to be strongly gendered. For example, among both men and women, comfort with one’s nude body is ass…
Reactions to pornography on a college campus
Premarital Coitus
Sociocultural correlates of permissive sexual attitudes
In a 1980 publication, Ira Reiss proposed a set of theoretical statements concerning gender roles and sexual customs in Sweden and the United States. He stated that, in comparison to the United States, sexual attitudes are more permissive in Sweden and that factors accounting for these differences include country variations in religiosity and attitudes toward general gender egalitarianism, the naturalism of sex, and the role of government with re…
Sexual Autonomy and the Status of Women
Sex and marriage manuals contain sexual scripts about female sexuality and the role of women in heterosexual relationships. As attitudes change, new scripts become marketable; and as manuals articulate new scripts, they legitimate a redefinition of women's sexuality and roles. This paper looks at 49 manuals published in the United States from 1950 to 1980. These manuals generally reflect one of three distinct models of female sexuality: different…
Swedish or American heterosexual college youth
Homosexual Identity
As a continuation of the work of Schwartz, Fearn, and Stryker (1966), the following hypothesis, and a number of causal models associated with it, are tested: commitment to a deviant identity is positively correlated with (a) psychological adjustment, and (b) a report of significant others supportive of that identity. Data from 2,497 male homosexuals in the United States, the Netherlands, and Denmark support the hypothesis. Four causal models are …
The Gay World
Trans Men
This article examines the experiences of 25 persons who were assigned female status at birth but do not wish to live as women and take on a masculine or queer gender identity. We employ the concept of “gendered embodiment” and introduce the concept of “sexualized embodiment” to highlight what is involved in this process. We ask how experiencing a masculine gender identity is reflexively tied to a trans man's sexuality and the ways in which these …
Homosexual foot fetishism
Homosexual samples
Sexual Modesty, Social Meanings, and the Nudist Camp
Sexual Modesty, Social Meanings, and the Nudist Camp Get access Martin S. Weinberg Martin S. Weinberg Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 12, Issue 3, Winter 1965, Pages 311–318, https://doi.org/10.2307/798936 Published: 07 August 2014
The Medical Profession in Finland
FINLAND, a small nation of 4.5 million people, occupies some 130,000 square miles of territory at about the same latitude as Alaska. It is a country that is still predominantly rural, with some 60 per cent of its inhabitants living in the rural areas. At the same time, technological and industrial advances have brought rapid changes in the occupational structure with more and more Finns engaged in urban types of occupations (viz. industry and ter…
The Nudist Camp
The purpose of this paper is to describe the modes of behavior, demographic composition, social structure, and paths of mobility that characterize organized nudism. The data come from three sources : ( 1 ) two successive summers of participant observation in camps in the United States and Europe, (2) interviews with 101 nudists from the Chicago area, and (3) mailed questionnaires completed by 617 nudists located throughout the United States and C…
The Problems of Midgets and Dwarfs and Organizational Remedies
Research of the Little People of America reveals the problems faced by stigmatized persons and how social organization can help to alleviate these problems. Important efjects of membership in the L.P.A. include opportunities for social participation and mate selection, and the facilitation of psychological and role adjustments. A finding of the study relates degree of satisfaction with membership in the L.P.A. to incentive for joining
Deviance
Deviance
Disruption, Social Location and Interpretive Practices
The responses of the Jewish residents of a New Jersey community to religious allegations that arose in the course of a local election were investigated by means of a questionnaire mailed to all known Jewish families in the community. The data indicated that Jewish participation and identity were positively related to a response of increased ethnocentrism; cross-ties were negatively related to increased ethnocentrism and positively to response of …
Social Nudism in America
The Gay World
The Male Homosexual
The folk view of age and the male homosexual is that the older the homosexual the less his sociosexual contact with other homosexuals due to a premium on youth in the homosexual world; and that the “old” homosexual is lower in psychological well being as a result of this sociosexual situation. The data reported in this paper support the social, but not the psychological, folk description. An explanation for this discrepancy between the folk view …
Being Discovered
Current conceptions of deviance have placed less emphasis on the role played by the deviant himself in being assigned a deviant label. To examine the role of the deviant, a sample of male homosexuals who had received less than honorable discharges from the military for homosexual conduct (LHD group) were compared with a sample who had received honorable discharges (HD). It was found that, compared to the HD group, the LHD group was more likely (a…
Homosexual samples
The Military
Nudist Society
Homosexuals and the Military
The Good Guys, The Bad Guys, and the Gay Guys
Homosexual Identity
As a continuation of the work of Schwartz, Fearn, and Stryker (1966), the following hypothesis, and a number of causal models associated with it, are tested: commitment to a deviant identity is positively correlated with (a) psychological adjustment, and (b) a report of significant others supportive of that identity. Data from 2,497 male homosexuals in the United States, the Netherlands, and Denmark support the hypothesis. Four causal models are …
Social Problems in American Society
Mother Camp
Male Homosexuals
Gay Baths and the Social Organization of Impersonal Sex
The conditions described by males as ideal for impersonal sex include protection; ample, accessible opportunities; a known, shared, and organized reality; bounding of the experience; congeniality; and a comfortable physical setting. This paper examines gay baths in rela-tion to these conditions. It also develops—from the male participants' perspective—a general model of the successful territorial and inter-actional organization of impersonal sex.…
Anthologies and Readers on Deviance
The Study of Social Problems
Sex Research
The Study of Social Problems
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