Key Books
- Cosmopolitan Sexualities: Hope and the Humanist Imagination (Polity: 2015)
- Imaginations: Fifty Years of Essex Sociology ( Wivenbooks, 2014)
- Sociology: The Basics ( Routledge, 2010)
- Intimate Citizenship: Personal Decisions and Public Dialogues pp191 (University of Washington Press, 2003).
- 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
- Documents of Life: An Introduction to the problems and literature of a Humanistic Method, (1983) Allen & Unwin, London, pp. l75.
- Telling Sexual Stories: Power, Intimacy and Social Worlds (1995) pp 244. Routledge: London.
- Sexual Stigma: An Interactionist Account, (1975) Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, l pp. 258
- Five editions of Sociology: A Global Introduction, pp795, with John Macionis (Pearson Education, since 1998
- Two editions of Criminology: A Sociological Introduction (with Carrabine, Cox. Lee and South) (Routledge, 2009).
- Sexualities (2002) 4 Volumes, pp1904, Routledge: London (An edited collection with critical assessments in four volumes with introductions and commentaries).
- The Chicago School (1997) 4 Volumes, pp1024 Routledge : London (An edited collection with critical assessments in four volumes with introductions and commentaries).
- 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.
- Symbolic Interactionism: Volume 2 Contemporary Issues (1991) Edward Elgar, Aldershot pp522 (two volumes of selected readings, each volume with an introduction by the author).
- The Making of the Modern Homosexual, (1981) Hutchinson, London, pp. 280. (An edited collection with four contributions from the editor).
Translation of Books:
Sociology: The Basics – in Bha Indonesian (2012),
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.
Japanese edition of Telling Sexual Stories (1998), with new ‘Japanese’ introduction.
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
Spanish Volume of Selected Essays edited Juan Zarco with intro by Norman Denzin
Articles since 2000
For 60 earlier publications see CV.
- 2012 ‘My Multiple Sick Bodies: Symbolic Interaction, Auto/ethnography and the Sick Body’ – in Bryan S. Turner ed Blackwell Handbook of the Body
- 2012 ‘ Towards a Cosmopolitan Symbolic Interactionism’ in Andrea Salvini, Josspeh A Katarba & Bryce Merrill, Symbolic Interactionism, Proceedings of the 1st Symposium Pisa201, 2012 p23-33
- 2012 ‘Critical Sexualities Studies’ – in George Ritzer ed Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Sociology Blackwell (2012) p243-268
- 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
- 2011: ‘Labelling Theory Revisited: Forty years on’ in Helge Peters & Michael Dellwing eds Langweiliges Verbrechen (Boring Crimes) Weisbaden: VS Verlag p83-103
- 2010 ‘Generational Sexualities, Subterranean Traditions, and the Hauntings of the Sexual World: Some Preliminary Remarks. Symbolic Interaction. Vol 33. N0 2 p163-191
- 2010 ‘The Social Reality of Sexual Rights’, in Peter Aggleton at al eds Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Health and Rights . Routledge. P45-55
- 2009 ‘Outsiders, Deviants and Countercultures: Subterranean Tribes and Queer Imaginations’ in Gurminder Bhambra and Ipek Demir 1968 in Retrospect: Amnesia, Alterity. Palgrave
- 2009 ‘ A quiet catharsis of comprehension: a poetic for Paul’ Symbolic Interaction, 32: 3, p174-6.
- 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
- ‘Herbert Blumer’ in Rob Stones ed, Key Sociological Thinkers, London : MacMillan, 2007 2nd ed.
- Editorial Adviser and contributor for The Encyclopaedia of Sociology (11 volumes). General editor: George Ritzer. Blackwell (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)
- ‘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)
- ‘Rights Work: constructing lesbian, gay and sexual rights in late modern times’ Rights ed Lydia Morris. (Routledge: 2006: Ch 8 p152-167).
- ‘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)
17. Sexual Conduct: Thirty Years On’. Introduction’ to 2nd edition of Gagnon and Simon’s Sexual Conduct: (Aldine, 2005).
18. The Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature, Fitzroy Dearborn. Editorial contributions.
19. Critical 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..
20. ‘Humanistic Research and the Polish Peasant’. Preface to Spanish Edition of ‘The Polish Peasant in Europe and America’ translated by Juan Zarco.
21. ‘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).
22. ‘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.
23. ‘ Male Sexuality’ in The Handbook of Masculinity Studies, edited by Robert Connell, Jeff Hearn & Michael Kimmel (Sage, 2004)
24. ‘‘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)
25. The Encyclopaedia of Social Science Research Methods: Sage. Editorial Adviser and Editorial Contributions.
26. ‘Homosexuality’ ‘Queer Theory’ and ‘Labelling Theory’ entries for 3rd edition of International Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences (ed A Kuper) 2004 Routledge.
27. The Sexual Spectacle: Making a Public Culture of Sexual Problems’ in George Ritzer ed The Handbook of International Social Problems, Sage (2003).
28. ‘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
29. ‘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).
30. ‘Rethinking the Sexual in Sociology: Bringing the Body Back In’ Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia. November. 2002. (Original article, translated directly into Italian)
31. ‘Critical Humanism in a Post-Modern World’ Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Volume 25, 2001 p291-301.
32. ‘The Square of Intimate Citizenship’ Citizenship Studies, Vol 5, No 3, November 2001 p237-53.
33. ‘Gay Cultures / Straight Borders’, in David Morley and Kevin Robbins eds British Cultural Studies, Oxford : Oxford University Press (2001) Ch 25, p387-398.
34. ‘Queering the Interview’, with Travis Kong and Dan Mahoney in Jaber Gubrium et al eds The Handbook of Interviewing, London, Sage ( 2001)p239-58.
- 35. ‘In Memoriam: William Simon’ Sexualities Vol 4, No 3. May 2001.
36. ‘The Call of Life Stories in Ethnographic Research’ Paul Atkinson et al eds The Handbook of Ethnography, London: Sage (2001)p395-406.
37. “Symbolic Interactionism in the Twentieth Century”, in Bryan Turner ed A Companion to Social Theory, Blackwell; revised version for second edition (2000) p193-222.
38. ‘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.
‘Intimate Choices’ , in Gary Browing, Abigail Halci & Frank Webster eds Theory and Society : Understanding the Present London : Sage, 2000.