Ken Plummer

Sociology: The Basics

Ken Plummer

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Ken Plummer; Nigel South; Iganski Paul

This fully comprehensive general introduction to Criminology covers all the major areas of the subject.covering such key topics as: the history of criminology, measurement of crime, crime and social exclusion, criminological theory, the criminal justice system, categories of crime, including property crime, violent crime, drugs and crime and crimes of the state and new areas such as environmental crime and the globalization of crime.

Designed to be user-friendly for both the instructor and student, each chapter contains boxed material on current controversies, key thinkers and examples of crime and criminal justice around the world with statistical tables, maps, summaries, critical thinking questions, annotated references and glossed key terms.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2009

Intimate Citizenship

Ken Plummer

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Intimate Citizenship: Private Decisions and Public Dialogues

Ken Plummer; Kenneth Plummer

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Telling Sexual Stories: Power, Change and Social Worlds

Ken Plummer

The world has become cluttered with sexual stories. From child abuse scandals to lesbians and gays coming out; from Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas to the travails of Michael Jackson; from sexual surveys to therapy groups--sexual talk has become more and more evident.

Telling Sexual Stories explores the rites of a sexual storytelling culture. Taking three major examples--rape stories, coming-out stories, recovery stories--it examines the nature of these newly emerging narratives and the socio-historical conditions which give rise to them. It looks at the rise of the women's movement, the lesbian and gay movement and the "recovery" movement as harbingers of significant social change that encourage the telling of new stories. In a powerful concluding section the book turns out to the wider concern of how story telling may be changing in a postmodern culture and how central such storytelling may be in the creation of a participatory democratic political culture.

Telling Sexual Stories illustrates how "the narrative turn" of cultural studies may be taken up within sociology. It suggests that a sociology of stories asks different questions about stories to those posed within cultural studies. The fascination with texts--with narrative structure, genre and metaphor--is now supplemented with questions around the social and political role that stories play; with the social processes through which they are constructed and consumed; with the political changes that stories may encourage. This book is a major contribution to our understanding of sexuality and cultures of intimacy.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1995

Documents of Life: An Introduction to the Problems and Literature of a Humanistic Method

Ken Plummer

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Other editions: Softcover - 1983