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Sep 30, 2021 · A lively, accessible and comprehensive introduction to the diverse ways of thinking about social life, Sociology: The Basics has been translated into six...
Ken Plummer (4 April 1946 – 4 November 2022) was a British sociologist. He was a professor of sociology at the University of Essex for 30 years. Books. Sexual Stigma (1975) The Making of the Modern Homosexual (1981) Documents of Life (1983) Telling Sexual Stories (1995)
Ken Plummer is a UK sociologist and Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. His main interests have always been in the development of a humanistic method and theory to help towards a better social world where there will be less socially produced suffering.
Oct 1, 2011 · In this thought-provoking study, sociologist Ken Plummer examines the transformations taking place in the realm of intimacy and the conflicts--the “intimate troubles”--to which these changes...
May 31, 2016 · A lively, accessible and comprehensive introduction to the diverse ways of thinking about social life, Sociology: The Basics (second edition) examines: The scope, history...
Apr 18, 2023 · Ken Plummer’s career embraced a range of interests, and disparate interventions but is marked by a remarkable consistency, rooted in a profound humanistic understanding of the social world.
Building on his long and distinguished career working in sociological queer studies, Ken Plummer’s recent offering, Narrative Power: A Struggle for Human Value, weaves personal reflections on the role of stories in the construction of identity with critical humanist ethnographic accounts of narrative self-making.
