Skiciranje sociološkog geja: prošlost, sadašnjosti i budućnosti sociologije istopolnih odnosa
Mapping The Sociological Gay: Past, Presents And Futures Of A Sociology Of Same Sex Relations

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims to briefly explain and review the developmental trends of so- ciology of same sex relations, assess the impact of sociology on lesbian and gay stud- ies and to point out to some developmental directions for the future. For most of its history, sociology has rarely looked at the personal life and hardly ever looked at erotic phenomena. It has paid even less attention to same gender relations. Until the 1950’s, it almost completely neglected these issues. The author highlights five key 'moments' in the development of sociology of same sex relations, each of which feeds into and works on the others: (1) the modernist silencing of the 'homosexual' voice, (2) the founding of 'the sociology of homosexuality', (3) the emergence of labeling theory, 'new deviances' and constructionism, (4) the arrival of AIDS and the 'Fou- cauldian deluge', and (5) the rise of queer theory. Next, the author identifies the diffi- culties of the lesbian and gay sociology, and locates their causes in the tensions which emerge from the four key sources: a sociological community that marginalizes lesbian and gay problems, a lesbian and gay community that objects to the theoretical constructionism in the most of sociological analysis, a generationally based queer studies that favour cultural studies over sociological studies, and a number of linked social movement schisms that generally interpret sociology as inevitably inclined to white male problems.

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