@article{ref1,
title="The social organization of desire: the sexual fields approach",
journal="Sociological theory",
year="2008",
author="Green, Adam Isaiah",
volume="26",
number="1",
pages="25-50",
abstract="Modern urban life is increasingly characterized by specialized erotic worlds designed for sexual partnership and sexual sociality. In this article, I build on sociological theory developed in areas other than the sociology of sexuality to formulate a framework uniquely suited to the analysis of such modern erotic worlds--the sexual fields framework. Coupling Goffman's social psychological focus on situational negotiation with a Bourdieusian model of routine practice, the sexual fields framework highlights the relationship of interactional work to fields of objective relations wherein historically specific erotic schemas acquire a structural manifestation that erotic players must navigate. In so doing, the sexual fields approach advances a set of sensitizing concepts for identifying the structures of collective sexual life, and raises a set of new lines of sociological inquiry, including the relationship of sexual fields to both psychoanalytic and macro-level structures and processes.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0735-2751",
doi="10.1111/j.1467-9558.2008.00317.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9558.2008.00317.x"
}