Ken Plummer

Dados Biográficos

ID3604156
NOMEKen Plummer
PRENOMESKen
SOBRENOMEPlummer
ASSINATURAPLUMMER K
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Essex
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS74
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES781
TOTAL COMO AUTOR77
TOTAL COMO EDITOR2
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1972
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2021
ÍNDICE H9

  • Pioneering Social Research

    Paul Thompson, Ken Plummer et al.BOOKPioneering Social Research2021

    Presenting the landmark Pioneers life stories project, this one-of-a-kind book documents how modern social research in the UK was shaped. It combines a fascinating history of the generations who built outstanding and influential social research with a valuable resource for future research and teaching on methods.

  • Pioneering Social Research

    Paul Thompson, Ken Plummer et al.BOOKPioneering Social Research2021

  • Pioneering Social Research

    Paul Thompson, Ken Plummer et al.BOOKPioneering Social Research2021

  • Epilogue

    Open AccessPaul M Thompson, Paul Thompson et al.CHAPTERPioneering Social Research2021

    In writing this book we have focussed above all on what we see as most interesting and valuable in the interviews. Yet, from the start it also seemed important to reflect on what is missing. Initially, that arose in terms of people. We noted significant researchers who we could not interview because they had died, or were unwell, or – rarely – did not want to record a life story in terms of our aims. We began with researchers who had direct exper…

  • Sociology

    Ken PlummerBOOKSociology2021

    A lively, accessible and comprehensive introduction to the diverse ways of thinking about social life, Sociology: The Basics has been translated into six languages. The volume is packed with thought-provoking summaries, questions, quotations and activities. It offers an absorbing narrative about what we mean by the social, and how we can think about it, weaving in discussions of the personal, the political and social change, along with concepts a…

  • Pioneering Social Research

    Open AccessPaul M Thompson, Paul Thompson et al.BOOKPioneering Social Research2021

  • Pioneering Social Research

    Open AccessPaul Thompson, Ken Plummer et al.BOOKPioneering Social Research2020

    Presenting the landmark pioneers' life stories project, this book documents how modern social research in the United Kingdom was shaped. It sheds new light on the lives, methods and motivations of men and women who helped develop a new world of research methodology, pioneered feminist research, and first confronted the issues of race and ethnicity. Many of the pioneers' lives were shaped by the declining decades of the British Empire, and the boo…

  • Whose Side Are We On?' Revisited

    Open AccessKen PlummerARTICLESymbolic Interaction2020Citada por: 9Referências: 31

    In 1967, Howard S. Becker gave a widely discussed and polemical presidential address entitled 'Whose Side Are We On?' Here he introduced the idea of the hierarchy of credibility. Briefly reviewing the article, I suggest a little of how the world has moved on since then. The core of my analysis links symbolic interactionism to ideas of narrative power, narrative inequality, and narrative othering, sketching out a frame of generic forms of narrativ…

  • Sexualities

    Open AccessKen PlummerARTICLESexualities2018

  • Sexual Markets, Commodification, and Consumption

    Open AccessKen PlummerOTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2018

    There is a long history of sex markets but contemporary capitalism has generated a wider and more intensive array. In this entry critical theories are discussed and eight basic market types are briefly described: selling relationships (e.g., “mail order brides”); selling emotions (e.g., sex therapy); selling “things” like drugs (e.g., viagra and sex toys); selling representations (e.g., the major global industry of pornography); selling marketing…

  • Kinsey, Alfred (1892–1956)

    Open AccessKen PlummerOTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2017

    Kinsey was a pioneer of early research into sexuality and, though a biologist, he provided some of the earliest statements about how sexuality was shaped by social forces. In this entry Kinsey's sociological contribution to the study of sexuality is suggested; and some key findings and ideas outlined (such as the six‐point homosexual continuum). Kinsey's work was controversial but it has had significant impact upon modern culture. Critical proble…

  • Hirschfeld, Magnus (1868–1935)

    Open AccessKen PlummerOTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2017

    Magnus Hirschfield was a pioneering German sex researcher and reformer at the center of many controversies. His work changed thinking on homosexuality, the “third sex,” and transvestism. He organized the Scientific Humanitarian Committee and was widely influential, but his work was much attacked from different angles and his Institut für Sexualwissenschaft closed down. Recently his work has been reclaimed as important

  • On the Infinitude of Life Stories

    Ken PlummerARTICLEQED A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking2017Referências: 5

  • Essentialism and Constructionism

    Open AccessKen PlummerOTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2017

    The debate over constructionism and essentialism is a longstanding philosophical argument, from Plato and Aristotle to contemporary debates over deconstruction in literary theory. Broadly and simply, essentialism suggests that qualities are inherent in objects of study, with little reference to contexts, ambiguities, and relativities. By contrast, constructionism (and its allied concept deconstruction, as put forward by Derrida) suggests that qua…

  • Modern, Late Modern, and Postmodern Sexualities

    Open AccessKen PlummerOTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2017Citada por: 1Referências: 2

    While sexuality has a history, the idea of a fixed transuniversal essential sex or gender is criticized. Some of the features of the classification of premodern, modern, and postmodern are discussed with examples in this entry. Finally, there is a focus on some of the key features of postmodern sexualities such as the lack of unitary cores and essential truths; the tendency towards pastiche; their indeterminacy and open‐endedness; the blurring an…

  • Scp>R eich, W ilhelm (1897–1957)

    Open AccessKen PlummerOTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2017

    Reich was a controversial theorist and therapist who merged ideas from Marx and Freud into a theory of sex economy and “characterology” in which capitalist repression was linked to sexual repression. For Reich, political analysis was equated with sexual liberation. His theory is outlined and many controversies are raised. Despite these problems, his work has developed its own social, even cult, following

  • Scp>K rafft‐ E bing, R ichard von (1840–1902)

    Open AccessKen PlummerOTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2017

    Krafft‐Ebing's contribution to the study of sexuality is outlined and some critical problems raised. He was a pioneer of the clinical study of sexual pathology – or sexual differences – and his major work Psychopathia Sexualis is briefly outlined. Critics see him as a “conservative regulator of sexuality” and as reinforcing society's prejudices. Supporters see him as paving the way for liberal reforms and new debates about sexual justice. It conc…

  • In Memoriam

    Open AccessKen PlummerARTICLESexualities2016

  • Digital Sexualities, Cybersexualities, and Virtual Sexuality

    Open AccessKen PlummerOTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2016

    The new language of digital sexualities is introduced and the forms it takes discussed. After a discussion of terminologies, digital sexualities are seen to have an impact on information, networking, representations, embodiment, and politics. Empirical studies of this field are briefly reviewed. Theoretical concerns are linked to change in time and space and global shifts in body and representations. The entry ends by raising some of the ethical …

  • Sexual Identities

    Open AccessKen PlummerOTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2016Referências: 5

    After outlining the concept of identity and the questions it poses generally for sociology, this entry applies the concept to the field of gay, lesbian, and queer identity. Earlier writing focused on the process of “coming out” and led to the emergence of a politics of identity. More recent work has focused on a multiplicity of changing identities. Connections are made to postcolonialism, intersectional studies, queer theory, and global research …

  • Sociology

    Daniel Nehring, Ken PlummerBOOKSociology2014

  • Social Perspectives in Lesbian and Gay Studies

    [Afterword] by Ken Plummer, Ken Plummer et al.BOOKSocial Perspectives in Lesbian…2013

    This comprehensive reader brings a social science perspective to an area hitherto dominated by the humanities. Through it, students will be able to follow the story of how sociology has come to engage with gay and lesbian issues from the 1950s to the present, from the earliest research on the underground worlds of gay men to the emergence of queer theory in the 1990s. Bringing together classic readings and the best work of younger scholars from a…

  • Intimate Citizenship

    Ken PlummerBOOKIntimate Citizenship2011

  • Critical Sexualities Studies

    Open AccessKen PlummerOTHERThe Wiley‐Blackwell Companion to…2011

    This chapter contains sections titled: History: The Emerging New Critical Sexualities Studies Framing Critical Sexuality Studies: Essential Social Features of the Humanly Sexual Change: Transformations of Twenty-First-Century Sexualities Conclusion: Generational Sexualities References

  • Documents of Life 2

    Ken Plummer

    Documents of Life was originally published in 1983 and became a classic text, providing both a persuasive argument for a particular approach and a manifesto for social research. As a critique of anti-humanist methodology in the social sciences, it championed the use of life stories and other personal documents in research which are now widely used today. This book is a substantially revised and expanded version which takes on recent developments.…