This site is under reconstruction and updating in the summer of 2021
This site is under reconstruction and updating in the summer of 2021

Articles before 2000

  1. Awareness of Homosexuality (1973) Awareness of Homosexuality
  2. Men in Love: Observations on Male Homosexual Couples (1978) Men in Love Observations on Male Homosexual Couples
  3. Misunderstanding Labelling Perspectives (1979) Misunderstanding Labelling Perspectives
  4. Going Gay: Identities Life Cycles and Lifestyles in the Male Gay World  (1981) Going Gay Identities Life Cycles and the Life Styles in the Male Gay World
  5. Symbolic Interactionism and Sexual Conduct: An Emergent Perspective (1982) Symbolic Interactionism and Sexual Conduct An Emergent Perspective
  6. Sexual Diversity: A Sociological Perspective (1984) Sexual Diversity A Sociological Perspective
  7. The Social Uses of Sexuality: Symbolic Interaction, Power and Rape (1984) The Social Uses of Sexuality Symbolic Interaction Power and Rape
  8. Organizing Aids (1988) Organizing Aids
  9. Lesbian and Gay Youth in England (1989) Lesbian and Gay Youth in England
  10. Staying in the Empirical World: Symbolic Interactionism and Postmodernism (1990) Staying in the Empirical World Symbolic Interactionism and Postmodernism
  11. Telling Sexual Stories in a Late Modern World (1995) Telling Sexual Stories in a Late Modern World
  12. ‘I Can’t Even Think Straight’: Queer Theory and the Missing Sexual Revolution in Sociology (1996) I Cant Even Think Straight Queer Theory and the Missing Sexual Revolution in Sociology
  13. Symbolic Interactionism and the Forms of Homosexuality (1996) Symbolic Interactionism and the Forms of Homosexuality
  14. Telling Sexual Stories (1997) Telling Sexual Stories
  15. ‘Homosexual Categories: Some Research Problems in the Labelling Perspective of Homosexuality’ (1998) Homosexual Categories Some Research Problems in the Labelling Perspective of Homosexuality
  16. The Past, Present and Futures of the Sociology of Same-sex Relations (1998)   Afterword The Past Present and Futures of the Sociology of Same-sex Relations
  17. The Lesbian and Gay Movement in Britain (1999) The Lesbian and Gay Movement in Britain
  18. The ‘Ethnographic Society at Century’s End: Clarifying the Role of Public Ethnography’ (1999) ‘The ‘Ethnographic Society’ at Century’s End: Clarifying the Role of Public Ethnography’ Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Vol 28, No 6 December 1999.
  19. Intimate Choices (2000) Intimate Choices

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Fuller Listing: Here is a listing of work done before 2000. An asterisk means it can be accessed by clicking above. 

I am afraid some of these are not accessible on line and sometimes the original source is becoming increasingly difficult to locate

  1. *‘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.
  2. ‘Herbert Blumer’ in Rob Stones ed, Key Sociological Thinkers, London : MacMillan, 1998.
  3. ‘Afterword : Looking Out’ in Peter Nardi & Beth Schneider eds, Sociological Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Lives, London : Routledge, 1998.
  4. ‘Im Gesprach: Ken Plummer , Telling Sexual Stories’. Zeitschrift fur Sexualforschung,  Vol. 10, No 1, p69-82, 1997
  5. ‘Introducing Chicago Sociology: The Foundations and Contributions of a Major Sociological Tradition’, in Ken Plummer ed, The Chicago School, Vol 1, p3-44.(1997).
  6. “Intimate Citizenship and the Culture of Sexual Story Telling”, in Janet Holland and Jeffrey Weeks ed Sexual Cultures: Community, Values and Intimacy , Macmillan (1996).
  7. “Symbolic Interactionism in the Twentieth Century”, in Bryan Turner ed  A Companion to Social Theory, Blackwell (1996).
  8. *‘Telling Sexual Stories in a Late Modern World”, in Norman K Denzin, ed. Studies in Symbolic Interaction,  Vol 18 1995 JAI Press p101-120.
  9. “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.
  10. “Speaking Its Name : Inventing a Lesbian and Gay Studies” in Ken Plummer ed, Modern Homosexualities, London: Routledge p3-25 (1992).
  11. “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).
  12. *“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.
  13. ‘*Understanding Childhood Sexualities’ in T. Sandford ed. Special issue of Journal of Homosexuality, 1990.
  14. *‘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).
  15. *‘Organising AIDS’ in P. Aggleton and H. Homans ed Social Aspects of AIDS, 20-51, Falmer Press, l988.
  16. *‘The Social Uses of sexuality: Symbolic Interaction, Power and Rape’, in J. Hopkins ed. Victims of Sexual Assault, 37-56,  Wiley, London, l985.
  17. *‘Sexual Diversity: A Sociological Approach’, in K. Howells ed. The Psychology of Sexual Diversity, 2l9-253, Blackwell, Oxford, l984.
  18. *‘Symbolic Interaction and sexual Conduct: An Emergent Paradigm’ in M. Brake ed. Human Sexual Relations, 223-244, Penguin, Middlesex, l982.
  19. *‘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.
  20. ‘Doing Life Histories’, (with A. Faraday) Sociological Review, Vol. 27, 773-92, November l979.
  21. *‘Misunderstanding Labelling Perspectives’ in D. Downes & P. Rock eds. Deviant Interpretations, 85-l2l, Martin Robertson, Oxford, l979.
  22. *‘Men in Love: Observations on the male Homosexual couple’, in M. Corbin ed. The Couple, l73-200, Penguin Books, Middlesex, l978.
  23. *‘Awareness of Homosexuality’, in R. Bailey & J. Young eds. Contemporary Social Problems in England, l03-l26, D.C. Heath, London, l973.
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