selected publications
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book
- Drugs and the American Dream 2012
- Sociological Odyssey 2012
- Constructions of Deviance. Ed. Adler, Patti. 2011
- The Tender Cut: Inside the Hidden World of Self-Injury 2011
- Paradise Laborers: Hotel Work in the Global Economy 2004
- Peer Power: Preadolescent Culture and Identity 1998
- Sociological Studies of Child Development: A Research Annual. Ed. Adler, Patti. 1993
- Wheeling and Dealing 1993
- Backboards & Blackboards 1991
- Membership Roles in Field Research 1987
- The Social dynamics of financial markets. Ed. Adler, Patti. 1984
- Introduction to the Sociologies of Everyday Life 1980
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chapter
- Introduction. Ed. Adler, Patti. 1-13. 2023
- Introduction. Ed. Adler, Patti. 1-18. 2022
- Introduction. Ed. Adler, Patti. 3-30. 2021
- Introduction. Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture. Ed. Adler, Patti. 335-339. 2020
- Foreword. Scientia Marina: international journal on marine sciences. 7-8. 2018
- Preadolescent Clique Stratification and the Hierarchy of Identity 2013
- The Gloried Self: The Aggrandizement and Constriction of Self 2013
- The Glorified Self: The Aggrandizement and Constriction of Self 2013
- The Gloried Self: The Aggrandizement and Constriction of Self 2013
- Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Preadolescent Cliques 2012
- Preadolescent Clique Stratification and the Hierarchy of Identity 2012
- Observational Techniques 2012
- Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Preadolescent Cliques. Ed. Adler, Patti. 2012
- Socialization to Gender Roles: Popularity Among Elementary School Boys and Girls. Ed. Adler, Patti. 2012
- The Cyber Worlds of Self-Injurers: Deviant Communities, Relationships, and Selves. Ed. Adler, Patti. 2012
- The Promise and Pitfalls of Going Into the Field. Ed. Adler, Patti. 2012
- ’Off-Time Labor’ in Resorts: The Social Construction of “Commercial” Time. Ed. Adler, Patti. 2012
- Relationships Between Dealers: The Social Organization of Illicit Drug Transactions 2012
- Role Conflict and Identity Salience: College Athletes and the Academic Role 2012
- The ‘Post’ Phase of Deviant Careers: Reintegrating Drug Traffickers 2011
- The Gloried Self: The Aggrandizement and Constriction of Self 2011
- The Promise and Pitfalls of Going Into the Field 2011
- Observational Techniques 2011
- Self-Injurers as Loners. Ed. Adler, Patti. 2011
- Shifts and Oscillations in Deviant Careers: The Case of Upper Level Drug Dealers and Smugglers. Ed. Adler, Patti. 2011
- The Cyber Worlds of Self-Injurers: Deviant Communities, Relationships, and Selves. Ed. Adler, Patti. 2011
- Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Preadolescent Cliques 2011
- Qualitative Inquiry: An Underutilized Strategy in AIDS Research 2010
- Role Conflict and Identity Salience: College Athletes and the Academic Role 2010
- Social Reproduction and the Corporate Other: The Institutionalization of Afterschool Activities 2010
- The Gloried Self: The Aggrandizement and Constriction of Self 2010
- Using a Gestalt Perspective to Analyze Children’s Worlds 2009
- Self-Injurers as Loners: the Social Organization of Solitary Deviance 2009
- The ‘Post’ Phase of Deviant Careers: Reintegrating Drug Traffickers 2009
- The Gloried Self: The Aggrandizement and Constriction of Self 2008
- Self-Injurers as Loners: the Social Organization of Solitary Deviance 2008
- The Deviance Society 2008
- The Identity Career of the Graduate Student: Professional Socialization to Academic Sociology 2008
- Tinydopers: A Case Study of Deviant Socialization 2008
- The Gloried Self: The Aggrandizement and Constriction of Self 2007
- Role Conflict and Identity Salience: College Athletes and the Academic Role 2007
- Childhood Socialization 2006
- Fighting the Good Fight 2005
- Shifts and Oscillations in Deviant Careers: The Case of Upper Level Drug Dealers and Smugglers 2005
- Shifts and Oscillations in Deviant Careers: The Case of Upper Level Drug Dealers and Smugglers 2003
- Shifts and Oscillations in Deviant Careers: The Case of Upper Level Drug Dealers and Smugglers 2003
- Shifts and Oscillations in Deviant Careers: The Case of Upper Level Drug Dealers and Smugglers 2003
- The Reluctant Respondent 2003
- From Idealism to Pragmatic Detachment: The Academic Performance of College Athletes 2003
- Identity 2003
- Shifts and Oscillations in Deviant Careers: The Case of Upper Level Drug Dealers and Smugglers 2003
- Shifts and Oscillations in Deviant Careers: The Case of Upper Level Drug Dealers and Smugglers 2002
- Tinydopers: A Case Study of Deviant Socialization 2002
- Shifts and Oscillations in Deviant Careers: The Case of Upper Level Drug Dealers and Smugglers 2002
- Do University Lawyers and the Police Define our Research Value System? 2002
- The Reluctant Respondent 2002
- From Idealism to Pragmatic Detachment: The Academic Performance of College Athletes 2001
- The Ethnographers’ Ball (Revisited): Reflections on Ethnography at the Turn of the Century 2001
- Role Conflict and Identity Salience: College Athletes and the Academic Role 2000
- Questions Éthiques Dans L’auto-censure: La Recherche Ethnographic Sur Des Sujets Sensibles 2000
- Understanding and Evaluating Qualitative Research 1999
- College Athletes and High Profile Media Sports: The Consequences of Glory 1999
- From Idealism to Pragmatic Detachment: The Academic Performance of College Athletes 1998
- Intense Loyalty in Organizations: A Case Study of College Athletics 1998
- Foreword: Moving Backward 1998
- Grobdealer und-schmuggler in Kalifornien: Karrieren zwischen und Konformitat 1998
- Parent-as-Researcher: The Politics of Researching in the Personal Life 1997
- Shifts and Oscillations in Deviant Careers: The Case of Upper Level Drug Dealers and Smugglers 1996
- The ‘Post’ Phase of Deviant Careers: Reintegrating Drug Traffickers 1996
- Tinydopers: A Case Study of Deviant Socialization 1995
- Qualitative Inquiry: An Underutilized Strategy in AIDS Research 1995
- Shifts and Oscillations in Deviant Careers: The Case of Upper Level Drug Dealers and Smugglers 1995
- The ‘Post’ Phase of Deviant Careers: Reintegrating Drug Traffickers 1995
- Between Legalization and War: A Reconsideration of American Drug Policy 1994
- Drug Dealing Networks: Interpersonal and Community Relations 1994
- Everyday Life Sociology 1994
- From Idealism to Pragmatic Detachment: The Academic Performance of College Athletes 1994
- Ethical Issues in Self-Censorship: Ethnographic Research on Sensitive Topics 1993
- From Idealism to Pragmatic Detachment: The Academic Performance of College Athletes 1993
- Everyday Life Sociology 1991
- Stability and Flexibility: Maintaining Relations within Organized and Unorganized Groups 1991
- Tinydopers: A Case Study of Deviant Socialization 1991
- Tinydopers: A Case Study of Deviant Socialization 1991
- Criminal Commitment Among Drug Dealers 1990
- Ethnographic Research on Hidden Populations: Penetrating the Drug World 1990
- Shifts and Oscillations in Deviant Careers: The Case of Upper Level Drug Dealers and Smugglers 1990
- From Idealism to Pragmatic Detachment: The Academic Performance of College Athletes 1987
- Tinydopers: A Case Study of Deviant Socialization 1985
- The Stock Market as Collective Behavior. Ed. Adler, Patti. 1984
- Toward a Sociology of Financial Markets. Ed. Adler, Patti. 1984
- Symbolic Interactionism 1980
- The Social Meanings of Employee Theft 1978
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journal article
- Winning: Reflections on an American Obsession. Contemporary Sociology: a journal of reviews. 199-201. 2012
- Self-Injury in Cyberworld. Contexts. 59-61. 2012
- Drug Use and Social Change: The Distortion of History. Contemporary Sociology: a journal of reviews. 202-203. 2010
- On the Make: The Hustle of Urban Nightlife.. American Journal of Sociology. 1247-1249. 2009
- The Philadelphia Mummers: Building community through play. Contemporary Sociology: a journal of reviews. 141-142. 2008
- Of rhetoric and representation: The four faces of ethnography. Sociological Quarterly. 1-30. 2008
- The cyber worlds of self-injurers: Deviant communities, relationships, and selves. Symbolic Interaction. 33-56. 2008
- The demedicalization of self-injury - From psychopathology to sociological deviance. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography: a journal of ethnographic research. 537-570. 2007
- The deviance society. Deviant Behavior: an interdisciplinary journal. 129-148. 2006
- Self-injurers as loners: the social organization of solitary deviance. Deviant Behavior: an interdisciplinary journal. 345-378. 2005
- Lost in translation?. Symbolic Interaction. 433-435. 2005
- The identity career of the graduate student: Professional socialization to academic sociology. The American Sociologist. 11-27. 2005
- Hooked on heroin: Drugs and drifters in a globalized world. Contemporary Sociology: a journal of reviews. 593-594. 2004
- The Promise and Pitfalls of Going into the Field. Contexts. 41-47. 2003
- Seasonality and flexible labor in resorts: Organizations, employees, and local labor markets. Sociological Spectrum: official journal of the Mid-South Sociological Association. 59-89. 2003
- Teen scenes: Ethnographies of adolescent cultures. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography: a journal of ethnographic research. 652-660. 2002
- Beyond the cheers: Race as spectacle in college sport.. Anthropology and Education Quarterly. 2002
- Off-time labor in resorts - The social construction of commercial time. American Behavioral Scientist. 1096-1114. 2001
- Transience and the postmodern self: The geographic mobility of resort workers. Sociological Quarterly. 31-58. 1999
- The ethnographers' ball-revisited. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography: a journal of ethnographic research. 442-450. 1999
- Fieldwork with children. Contemporary Sociology: a journal of reviews. 631-632. 1999
- Resort workers: Adaptations in the leisure-work nexus. Sociological Perspectives. 369-402. 1999
- Catskill culture: A mountain rat's memories of the great Jewish resort area. Contemporary Sociology: a journal of reviews. 435-436. 1999
- Live sex acts: Women performing erotic labor.. Gender and Society. 409-410. 1999
- Transience and the postmodern self: the occupational mobility of resort workers. Journal of Sport Tourism. 35-36. 1999
- Managing gender: Affirmative action and organizational power in Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand sport.. Administrative Science Quarterly. 191-193. 1998
- In search of respect: Selling crack in El Barrio - Bourgois,P. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 868-869. 1997
- Ethnography and human development: Context and meaning in social injury - Jessor,R, Colby,A, Shweder,RA. Contemporary Sociology: a journal of reviews. 654-655. 1997
- Urban girls: Resisting stereotypes, creating identities - Leadbeater,BJR, Way,N. American Journal of Sociology. 229-231. 1997
- A sociological analysis of the California taxi-dancer: The hidden halls - Meckel,MV. Symbolic Interaction. 367-369. 1996
- Preadolescent clique stratification and the hierarchy of identity. Sociological Inquiry. 111-142. 1996
- Casing a promised land: The autobiography of an organizational detective as cultural ethnographer - Goodall,HL. Administrative Science Quarterly. 203-205. 1996
- Parent-as-researcher: The politics of researching in the personal life. Qualitative Sociology. 35-58. 1996
- Understanding and evaluating qualitative research. Journal of Marriage and Family. 879-893. 1995
- DYNAMICS OF INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION IN PREADOLESCENT CLIQUES. Social Psychology Quarterly. 145-162. 1995
- WOMEN DRUG-USERS - AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF A FEMALE INJECTING COMMUNITY - TAYLOR,A. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography: a journal of ethnographic research. 229-232. 1995
- LEARNING FROM STRANGERS - THE ART AND METHOD OF QUALITATIVE INTERVIEW STUDIES - WEISS,RS. Contemporary Sociology: a journal of reviews. 420-421. 1995
- THE DEMOGRAPHY OF ETHNOGRAPHY. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography: a journal of ethnographic research. 3-29. 1995
- PURSUIT OF ECSTASY - THE MDMA EXPERIENCE - BECK,J, ROSENBAUM,M. Contemporary Sociology: a journal of reviews. 96-97. 1995
- SOCIAL REPRODUCTION AND THE CORPORATE OTHER - THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF AFTERSCHOOL ACTIVITIES. Sociological Quarterly. 309-328. 1994
- THE PEOPLE IN THE PLAYGROUND - OPIE,I. Sociological Inquiry. 238-241. 1994
- POWER AT PLAY - SPORTS AND THE PROBLEM OF MASCULINITY - MESSNER,MA. Gender and Society. 625-626. 1993
- CRACK PIPE AS PIMP - AN ETHNOGRAPHIC INVESTIGATION OF SEX-FOR-CRACK EXCHANGES - RATNER,MS. Contemporary Sociology: a journal of reviews. 848-851. 1993
- STREET KIDS, STREET DRUGS, STREET CRIME - AN EXAMINATION OF DRUG-USE AND SERIOUS DELINQUENCY IN MIAMI - INCIARDI,JA, HOROWITZ,R, POTTIEGER,AE. Contemporary Sociology: a journal of reviews. 848-851. 1993
- STREET KIDS, STREET DRUGS, STREET CRIME - AN EXAMINATION OF DRUG-USE AND SERIOUS DELINQUENCY IN MIAMI - INCIARDI,JA, HOROWITZ,R, POTTIEGER,AE. Contemporary Sociology: a journal of reviews. 848-851. 1993
- WOMEN AND CRACK-COCAINE - INCIARDIA,JA, POTTIEGER,AE, LOCKWOOD,D. Contemporary Sociology: a journal of reviews. 848-851. 1993
- ENGINEERING CULTURE - CONTROL AND COMMITMENT IN A HIGH-TECH CORPORATION - KUNDA,G. Industrial and Labor Relations Review. 425-426. 1993
- PLAYING WITH POWER IN MOVIES, TELEVISION, AND VIDEO GAMES - FROM MUPPET BABIES TO TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - KINDER,M. American Journal of Sociology. 175-176. 1992
- SOCIALIZATION TO GENDER-ROLES - POPULARITY AMONG ELEMENTARY-SCHOOL BOYS AND GIRLS. Sociology of Education: a journal of research in socialization and social structure. 169-187. 1992
- STREET CORNER SOCIETY REVISITED - NEW QUESTIONS ABOUT OLD ISSUES. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography: a journal of ethnographic research. 3-10. 1992
- The “post” phase of deviant careers: Reintegrating drug traffickers. Deviant Behavior: an interdisciplinary journal. 103-126. 1992
- ADLERS CRY FOUL. Contemporary Sociology: a journal of reviews. 144-144. 1992
- WOMENS SPORTS - A HISTORY - GUTTMANN,A. Contemporary Sociology: a journal of reviews. 110-111. 1992
- SUGARBALL - THE AMERICAN GAME, THE DOMINICAN DREAM - KLEIN,AM. American Journal of Sociology. 567-569. 1991
- THE LAUGH-MAKERS - STAND-UP COMEDY AS ART, BUSINESS, AND LIFE-STYLE - STEBBINS,RA. Contemporary Sociology: a journal of reviews. 392-393. 1991
- INTERPRETIVE INTERACTIONISM - DENZIN,NK. Contemporary Sociology: a journal of reviews. 626-627. 1990
- Ethnographic research on hidden populations: penetrating the drug world.. NIDA research monograph. 96-112. 1990
- THE GLORIED SELF - THE AGGRANDIZEMENT AND THE CONSTRICTION OF SELF. Social Psychology Quarterly. 299-310. 1989
- Whither the decline?. The American Sociologist. 336-340. 1989
- Dual-careerism and the conjoint-career couple. The American Sociologist. 207-226. 1989
- MAKING MONDRAGON - THE GROWTH AND DYNAMICS OF THE WORKER COOPERATIVE COMPLEX - WHYTE,WF, WHYTE,KK. Administrative Science Quarterly. 315-318. 1989
- INTENSE LOYALTY IN ORGANIZATIONS - A CASE-STUDY OF COLLEGE ATHLETICS. Administrative Science Quarterly. 401-417. 1988
- Everyday Life Sociology. Annual Review of Sociology. 217-235. 1987
- The Past and the Future of Ethnography. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography: a journal of ethnographic research. 4-24. 1987
- ROLE-CONFLICT AND IDENTITY SALIENCE - COLLEGE ATHLETICS AND THE ACADEMIC ROLE. The Social Science Journal. 443-455. 1987
- The Politics of Participation in Field Research. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography: a journal of ethnographic research. 363-376. 1986
- Dry with a Wink. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography: a journal of ethnographic research. 123-139. 1983
- Championing Leisure: the Professionalization of Racquetball. Journal of Sport and Social Issues. 31-41. 1982
- Criminal commitment among drug dealers. Deviant Behavior: an interdisciplinary journal. 117-135. 1982
- The Irony of Secrecy in the Drug World. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography: a journal of ethnographic research. 447-465. 1980
- The Role of Momentum in Sport. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography: a journal of ethnographic research. 153-175. 1978