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:Deviance, Field Research, Socialization and Youth, Sociology of Drugs, Sociology of Leisure and Work, Sociology of Sport
Teaching Interests: Classical Sociological Thought (Graduate), Contemporary Sociological Thought (Graduate), Deviant Behavior, Field Research Methods (Graduate and Undergraduate), Ethnographic Analysis (Graduate), and Ethnographic Writing (Graduate).
Recent Publications:
Books
Adler, Patricia A. and Peter Adler. The Tender Cut: Self-Injury in the Cyber Age. In press with New York University Press.
Adler, Patricia A. and Peter Adler. Paradise Laborers: Hotel Work in the Global Economy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004.
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 (eds.), Constructions of Deviance: Social Power, Context, and Interaction. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, Sixth Edition, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 2009.
Articles in Refereed Journals
Adler, Patricia A. and Peter Adler. 2008. “The Cyber Worlds of Self-Injurers: Deviant Communities, Relationships, and Selves.” Symbolic Interaction, 31(1): 33-56.
Adler, Patricia A. and Peter Adler. 2008. Presidential Address: “Of Rhetoric and Representation: The Four Faces of Ethnography.” The Sociological Quarterly, 49(1): 1-30.
Adler, Patricia A. and Peter Adler. 2007. “The Demedicalization of Self-Injury: From Psychopathology to Sociological Deviance.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 36(5): 537-70.
Translated into Dutch by Professor Frans Spierings, University of Rotterdam, for the National Self-Harm Network of the Netherlands, www.zelfbeschadiging.nl., 2008.
Adler, Patricia A. and Peter Adler. 2006. “The Deviance Society.” Deviant Behavior 27: 129-48.
Translated into Italian by Professor Raffaele Rauty, Università di Salerno, and published as a book in the series, "Esplorations," Marlin, Salerno: Cava dei Tirreni Press, 2009.
Adler, Patricia A. and Peter Adler. 2005. “The Identity Career of the Graduate Student: Professional Socialization to Academic Sociology.” The American Sociologist 36(2): 11-27.
Adler, Patricia A. and Peter Adler. 2005. “Self-Injurers as Loners: the Social Organization of Solitary Deviance.” Deviant Behavior 26(4): 345-78.
Chapters in Books
Adler, Patricia A. and Peter Adler, “Deviant Identity.” Concise Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, George Ritzer and J. Michael Ryan (Co-Editors), 2009.
Adler, Patricia A. and Peter Adler. “Using a Gestalt Perspective to Analyze Children’s Worlds.” In William Shaffir, Antony Puddephatt, and Steven Kleinknecht (eds.), Ethnographies Revisited: The Stories Behind the Story. New York: Routledge, 2009.
Adler, Patricia A. and Peter Adler. “Self-Injury.” In Claire M. Renzetti and Jeffrey L. Edleson (eds.), Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2008.
Adler, Patricia A. and Peter Adler. “Self-Harm.” In Michael Flood, Judith Kegan Gardiner, Bob Pease, and Keith Pringle (eds.), International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities Volume 1. London: Routledge, 2007.
