Patricia A. Adler

Professor
Ph.D.- University of California- San Diego
Associate Chair for Undergraduate Program
Ketchum Hall 217, 492-1177

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Research Interests: interpretive sociology, qualitative research methods, deviant behavior, drugs, sociology of children, sociology of sport

Teaching Interests: Classical Sociological Thought (Graduate) Contemporary Sociological Thought (Graduate), Deviant Behavior, Field Research Methods (Graduate and Undergraduate) Ethnographic Analysis and Writing (Graduate)

Recent Publications:

Adler, Patricia A. and Peter Adler. Sociological Odyssey: Contemporary Readings in Sociology. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 2001.

Adler, Patricia A. and Peter Adler. Peer Power: Preadolescent Culture and Identity. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998. Published in NetLibrary.com, 2000. Published digitally with Questia Media, Inc., 2001.

Adler, Patricia A. and Peter Adler, "’Off-Time Labor’ in Resorts: The Social Construction of "Commercial" Time." American Behavioral Scientist, 44(7), 2001.

Adler, Patricia A. and Peter Adler, "Resort Workers: Adaptations in the Leisure-Work Nexus." Sociological Perspectives, 42(3), 1999.

Adler, Patricia A. and Peter Adler. "The Joys of Research." Sociological Origins, 1(2), 1999.

Adler, Patricia A. and Peter Adler. "The Ethnographers' Ball (Revisited): Reflections on Ethnography at the Turn of the Century." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 28(5), 1999.

Adler, Patricia A. and Peter Adler. "Transience and the Postmodern Self: The Geographic Mobility of Resort Workers." The Sociological Quarterly, 40(1), 1999.