Full Description
This book is in honour of the late sociologist Ken Plummer - a remarkable scholar whose work transformed several fields, from his early writing on symbolic interactionism, stigma, and sexualities, through methodological innovations that have underpinned the 'narrative turn', to his explorations of citizenship and humanism.
The chapters in this collection cover a diverse range of topics, and all draw on Ken's work, revealing his enduring and significant influence. The breadth of contributions here testifies to Ken Plummer's impact across generations of scholars and sub-fields of sociology and social psychology. Many of the authors in this collection knew Ken personally, as colleagues, students, and friends.
Contributing to debates on critical theory, intimacy, and sexuality, the interdisciplinary nature of this book enables it to reach a wide audience engaged in research methods, social theory, anthropology, media studies, sociology, psychology, and history. It is aimed primarily at students, lecturers, and researchers interested in gender, sexuality, identity, social history, social theory, research, and teaching methods.
Contents
Introduction; SECTION 1. The Sociological Imagination; 1. Ken Plummer on Labelling, Stigma and Symbolic Interactionism; 2. Imagination, Vision, and Passion: On Being a Sociologist; 3. What We Did Next: Queer Stories of Ordinary Lives; 4. Humour as Test of Significance; 5. Telling Stories in Order to Live: Ken Plummer's Sociology of Sexuality; 6. Queering Sociological Imagination and Beyond: My Intellectual Journey with Professor Ken Plummer; SECTION 2. Intimate Citizenship and the Sociology of Sexualities; 7. Queering Counterpublics and Intimate Citizenship: On the Queer Legacy of Ken Plummer's Scholarship; 8. Authentic Self, Parental Acceptance, and the Quest for Social Recognition: Redefining Intimate Citizenship through PFLAG China; 9. Becoming Intimate Citizens: Education, LGBTQ+ identities, and the Plummer Legacy; 10. Intimate Citizenship and Sex Work and Inequality; 11. Queer lineage: On generational sexualities, LGBTQ identity and visibility; SECTION 3. Life Narratives: Moments of Discovery, Moments of Connection; 12. Telling Friendship Stories; 13. Embracing the 'aha' moments to forge a rich research life: The creative endeavours of the Pioneers of Social Research; 14. Critical humanism in the age of the edu-factory: A sociology out of time?; 15. Rights Work and the Social Construction of Rights; 16. Becoming a Sociologist; SECTION 4. Coda: Song and Dance; 17. Mary's Well of Loneliness in Merrily We Roll Along; 18. 'Some Kind of Paradise': Narrative action and generational sexualities in Max Vernon's musical The View Upstairs (2017); 19. Encore: Side by Side by Ken'
