Dr. Lorne Tepperman is a researcher who focuses on families and health-related family issues, as well as deviance and social control. Since 1970, he has taught sociology at the University of Toronto, where he also served as chair from 1997 to 2003 and as Director of the Health Studies Program from 2005 to 2007. He has mostly focused on authoring textbooks for undergraduates studying family, social inequality, social problems, deviance, and other sociological topics in recent years.

Tepperman’s purpose is to make sociological literature as accessible as possible while staying away from oversimplification. He has also authored books for the general public on social inequity, compulsive gambling, and sociology’s historic goals for similar reasons.