The Adlers

CONTEMPORARY THINKERS AND TOPICS
IN SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM

Patti and Peter Adler

Although Patti Adler is perhaps best known as a deviance expert, she is also credited by many to be one of the world's foremost experts on the area of drug dealers and drug smugglers. One of her most famous contributions is found in her work Wheeling and Dealing: An Ethnography of an Upper-Level Drug Dealing and Smuggling Community, which chronicles the world of dealing and smuggling after six years of intensive field research and interviews, receiving an honorable mention in 1987 for the SSSI Charles Horton Cooley Award. Some other areas of her research include the personal power in adolescent cliques, women and deviance, and a still-in-progress study on resort workers in Hawaii. The latter study is one that Adler is now working on with her husband, researcher and fellow sociologist Peter Adler. Peter's research interests include social psychology, qualitative methods, and the sociology of work, sport, and leisure.

Together, the Adlers have edited the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography and were the founding editors of Sociological Studies of Child Development. Among their many books are Backboards and Blackboards, a participant observation study of college athletes (1991), and Peer Power, a study of the culture of elementary schoolchildren (1998).

The Adlers are the co-authors of more than 20 books and scores of articles and professional presentations. Patti Adler is currently a professor of sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Peter is Professor of Sociology at the University of Denver. The Adlers both received their Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, San Diego.

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

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

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

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

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

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


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CONTEMPORARY THINKERS AND TOPICS IN SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM Patti and Peter Adler Although Patti Adler is perhaps best known as a deviance expert, she is also credited by many to be one of the world's foremost experts on the area of drug dealers and drug smugglers. One of her most famous contributions is found in her work Wheeling and Dealing: An Ethnography of an Upper-Level Drug Dealing and Smuggling Community, which chronicles the world of dealing and smuggling after six years of intensive field research and interviews, receiving an honorable mention in 1987 for the SSSI Charles Horton Cooley Award. Some other areas of her research include the personal power in adolescent cliques, women and deviance, and a still-in-progress study on resort workers in Hawaii. The latter study is one that Adler is now working on with her husband, researcher and fellow sociologist Peter Adler. Peter's research interests include social psychology, qualitative methods, and the sociology of work, sport, and leisure. Together, the Adlers have edited the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography and were the founding editors of Sociological Studies of Child Development. Among their many books are Backboards and Blackboards, a participant observation study of college athletes (1991), and Peer Power, a study of the culture of elementary schoolchildren (1998). The Adlers are the co-authors of more than 20 books and scores of articles and professional presentations. Patti Adler is currently a professor of sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Peter is Professor of Sociology at the University of Denver. The Adlers both received their Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, San Diego. Recent Publications: Adler, Patricia A. and Peter Adler. 2001. Sociological Odyssey: Contemporary Readings in Sociology. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company. Adler, Patricia A. and Peter Adler. 2001. Peer Power: Preadolescent Culture and Identity. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998. Published in NetLibrary.com, 2000. Published digitally with Questia Media, Inc. Adler, Patricia A. and Peter Adler. 2001. "Off-Time Labor in Resorts: The Social Construction of "Commercial" Time." American Behavioral Scientist, 44(7). Adler, Patricia A. and Peter Adler. 1999. "Resort Workers: Adaptations in the Leisure-Work Nexus." Sociological Perspectives, 42(3). Adler, Patricia A. and Peter Adler. 1999. "The Ethnographers' Ball (Revisited): Reflections on Ethnography at the Turn of the Century." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 28(5). Adler, Patricia A. and Peter Adler. 1999. "Transience and the Postmodern Self: The Geographic Mobility of Resort Workers." The Sociological Quarterly, 40(1).