Coming out in the Gay World

A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance

1957 • 21,402 citations

Social Theory and Social Structure

1958 • 10,861 citations

Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency

1957 • 5,357 citations

Conditions of Successful Degradation Ceremonies

1956 • 1,603 citations

Human Deviance, Social Problems, and Social Control.

1968 • 1,375 citations

Identities and interactions

1966 • 1,112 citations

Becoming a Marihuana User

1953 • 1,097 citations

Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality

1975 • 528 citations

The Police: Six Sociological Essays.

1971 • 434 citations

“I Want a Man”: Patterns of Attraction in All-Male Personal Ads

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Sex Offenders: An Analysis of Types

1965 • 365 citations

Society of Women: A Study of a Women's Prison.

1967 • 250 citations

Paranoia and the Dynamics of Exclusion

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Women's Prison: Sex and Social Structure.

1967 • 199 citations

Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex

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Ideological Supports to becoming and Remaining a Heroin Addict

1968 • 124 citations

The Booster and the Snitch: Department Store Shoplifting.

1964 • 119 citations

Notes on the Sociology of Deviance

1962 • 108 citations

Inmate Organization: Sex Differentiation and the Influence of Criminal Subcultures

1969 • 94 citations

Sexual Inversion: The Multiple Roots of Homosexuality

1966 • 83 citations

Homosexuality and medicine.

1970 • 72 citations

Homosexuality and Medicine

1970 • 69 citations

The Male Homosexual: Age-Related Variations in Social and Psychological Characteristics

1970 • 60 citations

The Problem of Homosexuality in Modern Society.

1964 • 50 citations

Parental Figures in the Genesis of Male Homosexuality

1959 • 42 citations

The Gay World: Male Homosexuality and the Social Creation of Evil

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1969 • 36 citations

Homosexuality and Pseudohomosexuality

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Public Stereotypes of Deviants

1965 • 28 citations

A Minority: A Report on the Life of the Male Homosexual in Great Britain

1961 • 24 citations

Neurotic Counterfeit—Sex

1951 • 20 citations

Apprenticeships in Prostitution

1965 • 20 citations

Sociological Aspects of Homosexuality

1966 • 15 citations

HOMOSEXUALITY: A PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDY OF MALE HOMOSEXUALS

1963 • 9 citations