Ken Plummer: What it is to be human

Ken Plummer’s career embraced a range of interests, and disparate interventions but is marked by remarkable consistency, rooted in profound humanistic understanding the social world. This most fully expressed his recent publication, Critical Humanism, leitmotif throughout writings since early 1970s. Whilst many contemporaries engaged wild flirtations with every intellectual fashion from anti-humanism to post-humanisms, whatever lies between, over past half-century, Plummer has remained faithful moral theoretical interests whilst being sharply alert nuance subtlety contemporary debate. He one knowledgeable sociologists, fluent theorist also passionate committed teacher who strives communicate as widely possible. And life work, years, you can still trace impact critical moment, engagement gay liberation 1970 which profoundly shaped trajectory scholar intellectual. essay focuses on number key themes, Sexual Stigma, Stories, Intimate Citizenship, Humanism that together offer story overarching theme: what it be human.