All Publications 1973-2022

All Publications:1973- 2022

Ken Plummer: List of Publications 1973-2022

Library
Books galore!

BOOKS

Books (those marked with * have been through various editions)

  1. Critical Humanism: A Manifesto for a 21st Century (Cambridge, Polity, 2021). 
  2. *Sociology: The Basics (Routledge, 2010/2021) 3rd edition 2021 (1st edition, 2010)
  3. Pioneering Social Research: Life Stories of a Generation, with Paul Thompson and & Neli Demireva (Bristol, Policy Press, 2021)
  4. Narrative Power: The Struggle for Human Value. (Cambridge, Polity, 2019).
  5. Cosmopolitan Sexualities: Hope and the Humanist Imagination. (Cambridge: Polity, 2015)
  6. Imaginations: Fifty Years of Essex Sociology. (Wivenhoe, Essex: Wivenbooks, 2014)
  7. *Criminology: A Sociological Introduction with Carrabine, Cox. Lee and South) (Routledge, 2004-12)). Involved with 2 editions 2004, 12).
  8. Intimate Citizenship: Personal Decisions and Public Dialogues pp191 (University of Washington Press, 2003).
  9. Sexualities (2002)   4 Volumes, pp1904, Routledge: London (An edited collection with critical assessments in four volumes with introductions and commentaries).
  10. *Documents of Life-2: An Invitation to a Critical Humanism (2001) (fully revised and much expanded edition of Documents of Life, 1983) pp315. London: Sage
  11. *Sociology: A Global Introduction (with John Macionis) Harlow (Pearson 1998- 2012) 5 editions. Through 5th edition 2012
  12. The Chicago School (1997) 4 Volumes, pp1024 Routledge: London (An edited collection with critical assessments in four volumes with introductions and commentaries).
  13. Telling Sexual Stories: Power, Intimacy and Social Worlds (1995) pp 244. Routledge:  London.
  14. Modern Homosexualities: Fragments of Lesbian and Gay Experience (1992) Routledge: London (An edited collection of original articles with a lengthy introduction by the editor) pp281.
  15. Symbolic Interactionism: Volume 2 Contemporary Issues (1991) Edward Elgar, Aldershot pp522; Volume 1 Foundation and History (1991) Edward Elgar, Aldershot, pp460. (two volumes of selected readings, each volume with an introduction by the author).
  16. *Documents of Life: An Introduction to the problems and literature of a Humanistic Method, (1983) Allen & Unwin, London, pp. l75.
  17. The Making of the Modern Homosexual, (1981) Hutchinson, London, pp. 280.  (An edited collection with four contributions from the editor).
  18. Sexual Stigma: An Interactionist Account, (1975) Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, l pp. 258

Translated Books:

Sociology: The Basics 
Bah Indonesian (2012), Portuguese (2016), Korean (2017) Chinese (2019), Japan (2019), Spanish (2017). 
Sociology: A Global Introduction
Sociologia (Spanish edition of Sociology: translated by Critina Flesher Fominaya and others) Pearson/ Prentice Hall; 3rd ed 2007.
Sociologia (Spanish edition of Sociology: translated by Roberto Garvia, Celia Valiente, Santuiago Perez-Nievas & Laura Morales) Prentice Hall; 1999.
Telling Sexual Stories (1998), 
Japanese with new ‘Japanese’ introduction.
Documents of Life
Japanese edition of Documents of Life (1991) with new preface.
Los Documentos Personales: Introduccion a los problemas y la bibliografia del metodo humanista, (1989)  Siglio Veintiuno Editores, Mexico, Spain, Argentina & Colombia, (Spanish translation of Documents of Life).
Greek Edition of Documents of Life published in 2003: Gutenberg 


ARTICLES

Main Articles

  1. 2019a ‘Whose Side Are We on?’ Revisited: Narrative Power, Narrative Inequality and a Politics of Narrative Humanity’ Symbolic Interaction, Vol 43, no 1, p46-71. First published online Aug 8, 2019. 
  • 2019b ‘Foreword: Falling in Love with Johnnie Ray: Sixty Years of Telling sexual Stories’ in Waugh and Arroyo, I Confess: Constructing the Sexual Self in the Internet Age, McGill- Queens University Press, p1x-xx
  • 2019 c ‘Critical Sexualities Studies: Moving on’ Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Sociology, eds George Ritzer and Wendy Weidenhaft Murphy
  • 2019d ‘Imagining Cosmopolitan Sexualities for the twenty first century, In Gerard Delanty,ed Routledge International Handbook of Cosmopolitan Studies, Routledg. P 224-233
  • 2018 b ‘Sexualities: Twenty Years On’ Sexualities’ Vol 21, 8 p 1204-1210
  • 2017 ‘On The Infinitude of Story Telling: Still Puzzling Queer Tales after all these years’  “Queer Autoethnographies” forum for a Spring 2017 issue of QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking. Vol 4 No 1 p189-97
  • 2016 ‘Narrative Power, Sexual Stories and the Politics of Story Telling’ in Ivor Goodson ed The Routledge International Handbook of Life Histories and Narratives.  Routledge
  • 2015 ‘Afterword: Liberating Generations: Continuities and Change in The Radical Queer Western Era’ in David Paternotte and Manon Tremblay, eds (2015) Ashgate Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism.   Ashgate
  • 2013 ‘A Manifesto for Social Stories’ in Liz Stanley ed, Documents of Life for the 21st Century Ashgate
  1. 2013 ‘ A Manifesto for Critical Humanism in Sociology’ in Daniel Nehring: Sociology – a Text and Reader. Routledge p489- 517 
  1. 2013 “Editorial Changeover: Farewell to Sexualities” Sexualities Vol 16, No 7 October pp755-63
  2. 2012 ‘My Multiple Sick Bodies: Symbolic Interaction, Auto/ethnography and  the Sick Body’ – in Bryan S. Turner ed Blackwell Handbook of the Body, Blackwell
  3. 2012  ‘ Towards a Cosmopolitan Symbolic Interactionism’   in Andrea Salvini, Josspeh A Katarba &  Bryce Merrill,  Symbolic Interactionism, Proceedings of the 1st Symposium Pisa 2012 p23-33
     
  4. 2012 ‘Critical Sexualities Studies’ – in George Ritzer ed Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Sociology Blackwell  (2012) p243-268 
  5. 2011: ‘Critical Humanism & Queer Theory’ with new afterword and comment ‘Moving On’: 4th edition of Norman Denzin and Yvonna Lincoln The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research London: Sage
  6. 2011: ‘Labelling Theory Revisited: Forty years on’ in Helge Peters & Michael Dellwing eds Langweiliges Verbrechen (Boring Crimes)  Weisbaden: VS Verlag p83-103
  7. 2010: ‘Generational Sexualities, Subterranean Traditions, and the Hauntings of the Sexual World: Some Preliminary Remarks. Symbolic Interaction. Vol 33. N0 2 p163-191
  8. 2010 ‘A Poetic for Paul’ in David Downes et al The eternal Recurrence of Crime and Control: Essays in Honur of Paul Rock. Oxford: Clarendon  (2010)
  9. 2010: ‘The Social Reality of Sexual Rights’, in Peter Aggleton at al eds Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Health and Rights . Routledge. P45-55
  10. ‘Hybridic Sexualities’ Introduction to Travis Kong Chinese Male Homosexualities: Memba, Tongzhi and Golden Boy. 2010 Routledge
  11. 2009 ‘Outsiders, Deviants and Countercultures: Subterranean Tribes and Queer Imaginations’ in Gurminder Bhambra and Ipek Demir 1968 in Retrospect: Amnesia, Alterity. Palgrave
  12. 2009 ‘A quiet catharsis of comprehension: a poetic for Paul’ Symbolic Interaction, 32: 3, p174-6.
  13. 2009 ‘On Narrative Pluralism’ Preface to Phillip L. Hammack & Bertram J.Cohler eds The Story of Sexual Identity: Narrative Perspectives on the Gay and Lesbian Life Course 
  14. 2008: Studying Sexualities for a Better World? Ten years of Sexualities’ Editor’s Introductory Essay to the 10th Anniversary  Edition of Sexualities Volume 11,  No1-2 p7-22
  15. 2007:  ‘Herbert Blumer’ in Rob Stones ed, Key Sociological Thinkers, London : MacMillan, 2007 2nd ed.
  16. 2007: Editorial Adviser and contributor for The Encyclopaedia of Sociology (11 volumes). General editor:     George Ritzer. Blackwell (2007).
  17. 2007: ‘The Flow of Boundaries : Gays, Queers and Intimate Citizenship’, in Christine Chinkin et al: Crime, Social Control and Human Rights: From moral panics to states of denial :Essays in Honour of Stanley Cohen. Devon: Willan Publishing (2007)
  18. ‘Queers, Bodies and Post-Modern Sexualities: A Note on Revisiting the “Sexual”    in M. Kimmel  The Sexual Self ( Essays in Honour of John Gagnon). Vanderbilt University Press (reprinted from Symbolic Interactionism’ Qualitative Sociology, Vol. 26 No 4 Winter 2003 p513–529)
  19. 2006: ‘Rights Work: constructing lesbian, gay and sexual rights in late modern times’ Rights ed Lydia Morris. (Routledge: 2006: Ch 8 p152-167). 
  20. 2005a: ‘Intimate Citizenship in an Unjust World’  in The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities edited by Mary Romero & Judith Howard (Blackwell, 2005 : Ch 4 p75-99)
  21. 2005b: Sexual Conduct: Thirty Years On’. Introduction’ to 2nd edition of Gagnon and Simon’s  Sexual Conduct: (Aldine, 2005).
  22. The Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature, Fitzroy Dearborn. Editorial contributions.
  23. 2005:cCritical Humanism and Queer Theory: Living with the Tensions’’ for 3rd edition of Handbook of Qualitative Research edited by Norman K Denzin and Yvonne Lincoln     (Sage: 2005), London..
  24. ‘Humanistic Research and the Polish Peasant’.  Preface to Spanish Edition of  ‘The Polish Peasant in Europe and America’ translated by Juan Zarco. 
  25. 2004a: ‘The Flow of Boundaries In a Late Modern World: The Case of Gays, Queers and Intimate Citizenship’  Actas de Encontros em Sociologia, Uinervisdade do minho, Maio de 2004 pp25-50 (Portuguese Journal of Sociology, ed. Ana Maria Brandao et al).
  26. 2004b: ‘Sociological Identity: An interview with Professor Ken Plummer translated by A.Rkyun’ / ‘Sociologicheskaya identitchnost:intervju s Professorom K. Plummerom / prevod A.Rykuna. Journal of Sociology (Sociologicheski Zurnal), Quarterly, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of of Sociology, Moscow. 2004 p143-157  Vols 3 & 4.
  27. 2004c: ‘ Male Sexuality’ in The Handbook of Masculinity Studies, edited by Robert  Connell, Jeff Hearn & Michael Kimmel (Sage, 2004)
  28. 2004d: ‘‘Social Worlds, Social Change and The New Sexualities Theories’ in Belinda Brooks-Gordon, Loraine Gelsthorpe, Martin Johnson and Andrew Bainham eds. Sexuality Repositioned: Diversity and the Law. (Hart: 2004)(from Cambridge Symposium,   April 2003) 
  29. The Encyclopaedia of Social Science Research Methods: Sage. Editorial Adviser and Editorial Contributions.
  30. ‘Homosexuality’ ‘Queer Theory’ and ‘Labelling Theory’ entries for 3rd edition of  International Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences  (ed A Kuper) 2004 Routledge.
  31. 2003: The Sexual Spectacle: Making a Public Culture of Sexual Problems’ in George  Ritzer ed  The Handbook of International Social Problems, Sage (2003).
  32. ‘Queers, Bodies and Post-Modern Sexualities: A Note on Revisiting the “Sexual”    in Symbolic Interactionism’ Qualitative Sociology, Vol. 26 No 4 Winter 2003 p513–529
  33. ‘Continuity and Change in Howard S. Becker’s work: An Interview with Howard S.  Becker.’ Sociological Perspectives. Vol. 46.No 1.p21-40 (Feb, 2003).
  34. ‘Rethinking the Sexual in Sociology: Bringing the Body Back In’ Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia. November. 2002. (Original article, translated directly into Italian)
  35. ‘Critical Humanism in a Post-Modern World’ Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Volume 25, 2001 p291-301.
  36. ‘The Square of Intimate Citizenship’ Citizenship Studies, Vol 5, No 3, November 2001 p237-53.
  37. ‘Gay Cultures / Straight Borders’, in David Morley and Kevin Robbins eds British Cultural Studies, Oxford : Oxford University Press (2001) Ch 25, p387-398.
  38. ‘Queering the Interview’, with Travis Kong and Dan Mahoney in Jaber Gubrium et al eds The Handbook of Interviewing, London, Sage ( 2001)p239-58.
  39.  ‘In Memoriam: William Simon’ Sexualities Vol 4, No 3. May 2001.
  40. ‘The Call of Life Stories in Ethnographic Research’  Paul Atkinson et al eds The Handbook of Ethnography, London: Sage (2001)p395-406.
  41. “Symbolic Interactionism in the Twentieth Century”, in Bryan Turner ed A Companion to Social Theory, Blackwell; revised version for second edition (2000) p193-222.
  42. ‘Mapping the Sociological Gay: Pasts, Presents and Futures of a Sociology of  Same Sex Relations’ in Theo Sandfort, Judith Schuyf, Jan Willem Duyvcendak & JeffreyWeeks ed  Lesbian and Gay Studies :  An Introductory, Interdisplinary Approach London : Sage (2000) p46-60.
  43. ‘Intimate Choices’ , in Gary Browing, Abigail Halci & Frank Webster eds Theory and Society : Understanding the Present  London : Sage, 2000.
  44. ‘The ‘Ethnographic Society’ at Century’s End: Clarifying the Role of Public Ethnography’ Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Vol 28, No 6 December 1999.
  45. ‘The Lesbian and Gay Movement in the UK, 1965-1995: Schism, Solidarities, and Social Worlds” in Gay and Lesbian Movements Since the 1960’s (ed  Barry Adam, Jan Willem Duyvendak & Andre Krouwel) Temple University Press, 1998.
  46. ‘Herbert Blumer’ in Rob Stones ed, Key Sociological Thinkers, London : MacMillan, 1998.
  47. ‘Afterword : Looking Out’ in Peter Nardi & Beth Schneider eds, Sociological Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Lives, London : Routledge, 1998.  
  48. ‘Introducing Chicago Sociology: The Foundations and Contributions of a Major Sociological Tradition’, in Ken Plummer ed, The Chicago School, Vol 1, p3-44.(1997).
  49. “Intimate Citizenship and the Culture of Sexual Story Telling”, in Janet Holland and Jeffrey Weeks ed Sexual Cultures: Community, Values and Intimacy , Macmillan (1996).
  50. ‘Telling Sexual Stories in a Late Modern World”, in Norman K Denzin, ed. Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Vol 18 1995 JAI Press p101-120.
  51. “I Can’t Even Think Straight: Queer Theory and the Missing Revolution in Sociology”, with Arlene Stein, Sociological Theory  12: 2 July 1994 pp178-187.
  52. “Speaking Its Name : Inventing a Lesbian and Gay Studies” in Ken Plummer ed, ModernHomosexualities, London: Routledge p3-25 (1992).
  53. “Seksuelle historier: Fra moderne fortaellinger til sdemoderne fortaellinger”, Nordisk Sexolgi, Vol. 9, No 3 November 1991 pp135 -162 (translated by Henning Bech : not published in English).
  54. “Herbert Blumer and the Life History Tradition” Symbolic Interaction Vol. 13, No 2 Fall 1990  p125-44 (Together with : Norman K. Denzin, “The Spaces of Postmodernism: Reading Plummer on Blumer”, and Ken Plummer, “Staying in the empirical World : Symbolic Interactionism and Postmodernism”, Symbolic Interaction, Vol. 13 p155-60.
  55. ‘Understanding Childhood Sexualities’ in T. Sandford ed. Special issue of Journal of Homosexuality, 1990.
  56. ‘Lesbian and Gay Youth in England” in G. Herdt ed. Gay and Lesbian Youth,p195-224  Haworth Press, N.Y., 1989. (published simultaneously as a special issue of the Journal of Homosexuality Vol 17, Nos 1/2/3/4, 1989).
  57. ‘Organising AIDS’ in P. Aggleton and H. Homans ed Social Aspects of AIDS, 20-51, Falmer Press, l988.
  58. ‘The Social Uses of sexuality: Symbolic Interaction, Power and Rape’, in J. Hopkins ed. Victims of Sexual Assault, 37-56,  Wiley, London, l985.
  59. ‘Sexual Diversity: A Sociological Approach’, in K. Howells ed. The Psychology of Sexual Diversity, 2l9-253, Blackwell, Oxford, l984.
  60. ‘Symbolic Interaction and sexual Conduct: An Emergent Paradigm’ in M. Brake ed. Human Sexual Relations, 223-244, Penguin, Middlesex, l982.
  61. ‘Going Gay: Identities, Life Cycles and the Male Gay World’ in D. Richardson & J. Hart, The Theory and Practice of Homosexuality, 93-ll0, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, l98l.
  62. ‘The Paedophile’s Progress: A View From Below’ in B. Taylor ed. Perspectives on Paedophilia,  ll3-l32, Batsford, London, l98l.
  63. ‘Paedophilia: Constructing a Sociological Baseline’ in M. Cook and K. Howells ed. Adult Sexual Interest in Children, 22l-250, Academic Press, l98l.
  64. ‘Self help groups for sexual minorities: The case of the Paedophile’ in D.J. West, ed. Sex Offenders inthe Criminal Justice System, 6-l9, Cambridge, l980.
  65. ‘Images of Paedophilia’ in M. Cook and G. Wilson, eds. Love and Attraction,  Pergamon Press, London, l979.
  66. ‘Doing Life Histories’, (with A. Faraday) Sociological Review, Vol. 27, 773-92, November l979.
  67. ‘Misunderstanding Labelling Perspectives’ in D. Downes & P. Rock eds. Deviant Interpretations, 85-l2l, Martin Robertson, Oxford, l979.
  68. ‘Men in Love: Observations on the male Homosexual couple’, in M. Corbin ed. The Couple, l73-200, Penguin Books, Middlesex, l978.
  69. ‘Awareness of Homosexuality’, in R. Bailey & J. Young eds. Contemporary Social Problems in England, l03-l26, D.C. Heath, London, l973.

Some Shorter Pieces  

  1. “Intimate Citizenship: The politics of the personal and the public” in Maria Soledad Garcia Cabeza & Thomas Faist eds Citizenship: Readings, Edward Elgar 2022 forthcoming
  • “Foreword: Biographical Troubles: Between Life Story and Narrative World” in Ana Caetano & Magda Nico eds Biographical Research: Challenge and Creativity, Routledge, 2022
  • “Foreword: Transforming everyday gay life” In Edgar Rodriguez-Dorans and Jason Holmes eds The Everyday Life of Gay Men, Routledge, 2022, pxii-xx
  • ‘No Other Way’ in Todd E. Maclean Global Chorus: 365 Voices on the Future of the Planet.  Toronto: Rocky Mountain Books p90 March 22nd entry
  • “Meeting Men: A Poetic for Henning” in Marie Bruvik Heinskou og Morten Emmerik Woldike (ed) Byen Og Blikkets Lyst: Festskrift Til Henning Bech, 2014 Centre for Sexualities Studies, Copenhagen Univesity  p53-5
  • Preface to:  Nanang Martono: Symbolic violence in Schools. Indonesia: Pierre Bourdieu, 2012, PT RajaGrafindo Persada, Jakarta pxi-xix
  • Auto/Biographical Society in John Goodwin ed Biographical Research Sage Methodology Volumes 2012 Reprint
  • ‘A round up of some recent books on sex work and prostitution’. Sexualities 13.3 p294-400
  • ‘A Poetic for Paul’ in David Downes et al The eternal Recurrence of Crime and Control: Essays in Honur of Paul Rock. Oxford: Clarendon  (2010); and and also in Symbolic Interaction Vol 32  No 3 Summer 2009 p p174-6
  1. ‘On Narrative Pluralism’ Preface to Phillip L. Hammack & Bertram J.Cohler eds The Story of Sexual Identity: Narrative Perspectives on the Gay and Lesbian Life Course (2009)
  1. ‘The Call of Life Stories in Ethnographic Research’  Paul Atkinson et al eds The Handbook     of Ethnography, Student’s Paper Edition. London: Sage (2007) p395-406.
  2. ‘Life Stories and the Narrative Turn’ in John Scott ed Documentary Research. London: Sage 2006 (Benchmarks in Social Research Methods).reprint
  1. Editor. With Rob Stones. Essex Graduate Journal of Sociology. Vol. 4 Feb 2004.
  1. ‘Queering the Interview’, with Travis Kong and Dan Mahoney in Jaber Gubrium et al eds. London, Sage ( 2004) p239-58.reprint‘Interactionism and the forms of homosexuality’ in Aberdeen Body Group. The   Body: Critical concepts, Routledge. (2003) reprint.“Identity”, in  William Outhwaite, ed. Handbook of Twentieth Century Thought, (2003) Oxford: Blackwell .
  1. ‘Stories of Ageing in Everyday Life’. Preface to R. Bytheway ed  Ageing and Everyday   Life. Centre for Policy in Ageing. (2003).
  1. Symbolic Interactionism and Sexual Conduct: An Emergent Perspective’ reprinted in Christine Williams and Arlene Stein ed Sexuality and Gender, p20-33 (Blackwell Readers in Sociology) Blackwell, 2002. 
  1. ‘Preface’ to Gay Activism in Britain from 1958: The Hall Carpenter Archives. Gale Group. 2002.
  1. ‘Brief comments’ in John Bancroft ed The Role of Theory in Sex Research, Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2000.
  1. ‘Labelling Theory’ in Encyclopaedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior eds (2000) Clifford D Bryant, Taylor and Francis.
  • ‘Preface’ to Scandinavian Homosexualities edited by Jan Lofstrom, Haworth Press, 1998.
  • ‘Editorial: Introducing Sexualities’, Sexualities, Vol 1, No1 February 1998 p 5-10. “I Can’t Even Think Straight: Queer Theory and the Missing Revolution in Sociology”,with Arlene Stein, Sociological Theory  12: 2 July 1994 pp178-187. Reprinted in Jeffrey Alexander, Raymond Boudon et al eds The Classical Tradition in Sociology : Volume 4 American Sociology in the 20th Century, 1997,London: Sage. Reprint
  • ‘Beyond Texts: Constructionism Revisited’, 1997, GLQ Volume 4, No 1 p142-152, December.
  • ‘An Invitation to a sociology of stories’ in Ann Gray & Jim McGuigan ed Studying Culture, 1997; London : Arnold, p333-345. Reprint
  • ‘Sexual Stigma’ reprinted in Steven Seidman Queer Theory/Sociology, Oxford: Blackwell. Reprin
  • “I Can’t Even Think Straight: Queer Theory and the Missing Revolution in Sociology”, with Arlene Stein ; reprinted in Steven Seidman Queer Theory/Sociology, Oxford: Blackwell. Reprint
  • ‘Symbols of Change’ Preface to William Simon Postmodern Sexualities, 1996 Routledge.
  • ‘Homosexuality’ and ‘Labelling Theory’ entries for 2nd edition of  International Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences  (ed A Kuper) 1996 Routledge.
  • ‘Genders in Question ‘Preface to Richard Eakin & Dave King’s Gender Blending, 1995, Routledge
  • ‘Life Story Research’ in Rethinking Methods in Psychology eds Jonathan A. Smith, Rome Harre & Luk Van Langehove, 1995: London: Sage p 50-64.
  • 100 entries plus for the Short Oxford Dictionary of Sociology, edited by Gordon Marshall, Oxford University Press (1994).
  • “Going Gay”, in Robert Bocock & Kenneth Thompson eds, Social and Cultural Forms of Modernity, Open University / Polity  Press p263-268  (1992). Reprint
  • An Interview with Jeffrey Weeks by Ken Plummer Journal of Homosexuality Vol 25 (4) 1993 p121-131.
  • “Identity”, in T.Bottomore & W. Outhwaite, eds Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Thought, (1993) Blackwell p270-272.
  • “Documents of Life : Life Stories”, in Patrick McNeill Society Today 2  (1991) Macmillan, London p191-4.
  • “Interview: Kenneth Plummer”, Paidika, Vol. 2, No 2, p2-11 (1990).
  • “Being Gay: The Construction of Homosexuality”, Gay Times April 1989.
  • “Unga homosexuella i England”, Lamda Nordica Vol 1, Nr 1 1989 p4-39.
  • Interview on ‘Documents of Life’ New Society 20th May, l988.
  • ‘Homosexuality’, in R. Kuper ed. Social Problems and Mental Illness, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, l987.
  • ‘Worlds Apart: Aids in Britain and America’ Gay Times, 50-3, February, l986.
  • ‘Homosexuality’, in International Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences (eds. R & A Kuper), 362-4, Routledge, l985.
  • ‘Theatre of Aids’, New Society, 476-7, 28 June l985.
  • ‘Aids in San Francisco: the politics of Aids’, Gay Times, 50-3, October l985.
  • ‘Aids in New York City: the culture of Aids’, Gay Times, 26-9, May l985.
  • ‘The Varieties of Gay Sex’, Gay Times, July l984.
  • Various entries for the Student Encyclopaedia of Sociology edited by Michael Mann (Macmillan), London, l983.
  • ‘Sexual Stigma’ in R. Bocock et. al. An Introduction to Sociology, l22-l49, Fontana,   London. Reprint.
  • ‘Een Sociologisische Kijk op Pedofile’, N.I.K.S.,  Numbers 14, 15, 16, l978.
  • ‘Sociology and Homophobia’, Gay News No. 106, l976.
  • ‘Values, sociology and social work education’ in Values in Social Work, C.C.E.T.S.W. Report, l974.

Interviews

  1. ’ Interview with Ken Plummer’ Researching Sex and Sexualities, ed Charlotte Morris et al, 2018 London: Zed Books. p340-358
  2. Interview with Ken Plummer   by Paul Thompson ESRC Project 
  3. Interview with Ken Plummer’ Sociology: BSA Newsletter (May, 2000).  
  4. ‘Im Gesprach: Ken Plummer Telling Sexual Stories’. Zeitschrift fur Sexualforschung,  1997 Vol. 10, No 1, p69-82, 1997. 
  5. Interview on ‘Documents of Life’ New Society 20th May, l988.

Some Non-English Articles and Translations

  1. ‘The Flow of Boundaries In a Late Modern World: The Case of Gays, Queers and Intimate Citizenship’ Actas de Encontros em Sociologia, Uinervisdade do minho, Maio de 2004 pp25-50 (Portuguese Journal of Sociology, ed. Ana Maria Brandao et al).
  • ‘Sociological Identity: An interview with Professor Ken Plummer translated by A.Rkyun’ / ‘Sociologicheskaya identitchnost:intervju s Professorom K. Plummerom / prevod A.Rykuna. Journal of Sociology (Sociologicheski Zurnal), Quarterly, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of of Sociology, Moscow. 2004 p143-157  Vols 3 & 4.
  • La Cuadratura de la Ciudadania Intima. Algunas Propuestas Preliminares’  (translated by Kerman Calvo) Sociologia de la sexualidad 195 eds. Raquel Osborne , Oscare Guasch, Madrid,2003.
  • ‘Im Gesprach: Ken Plummer , Telling Sexual Stories’. Zeitschrift fur Sexualforschung, Vol. 10, No 1, p69-82, 1997.
  • ‘La diversidad sexual. Una perspectiva sociologica.’ En Jose Antonio Nito.(comp) La sexualidad en la sociedad conemporanea. Madrid : Fundacion- Universidad Empresa.    1991..
  • “Seksuelle historier: Fra moderne fortaellinger til sdemoderne fortaellinger”, Nordisk Sexolgi, Vol. 9, No 3 November 1991 pp135 -162 (translated by Henning Bech : not published in English).
  • “Unga homosexuella i England”, Lamda Nordica Vol. 1, Nr 1 1989 p4-39.
  • ‘Denegation homosexuelle et neutralisation’ ( from Sexual Stigma), Societes : Revue des Sciences Humaines et Sociales,  ed R. Medes -Leite  1993, No 39. (French).
  • ‘Een Sociologisische Kijk op Pedofile’, N.I.K.S.,  Numbers 14, 15, 16, l978.
  • ‘O tornar-se gay: idendades, ciclos de vida e estilos de vida no mundo homosexual masculine’ p127 -150 in Hart and Richardson, Teoria e Practica Da Homosexualidade, 1983, Zahar-Editores : Rio de Janeria (Portugese).

Educational Study Guides Publications

Masculinity, homosexuality and homophobia, (1988) Unit for Open University, Level 2, Social Welfare.

The Study of Life Histories, (1980) prepared for Open University, introductory sociology block – along with two videos and one tape.

An introduction to the study of deviance,  (1979) prepared for N.A.L.G.O. Study Courses.

Report

‘Symbolic Interactionism and Sexual Differentiation:  An empirical Investigation’, (1979) a Report to the E.S.R.C.

Videos

Child Sexual Abuse, lecture (1985) edited by June Hopkins. Teesside Polytechnic

The Life History Interview, (1980) for the Open University. Introductory Sociology Course (ran for about 10 years)….

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