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This poetic series in nine parts attunes to the subject's complex and abiding attachment to the object. The unfixed voices of these poems subtly shift across the series, from subject to object to yet a third "social" position. The poems move through a queer temporality in which the object appears suddenly yet has always already been present and in which the disappearance of the object is marked by a turn toward a future that is never in reach.

New Social Connections offers a fresh approach to new explorations of the reconfigurations of sociological thought and questions the subjects and objects of sociological enquiry. The collection provides a mix of literature review, original theory and includes reflexive and innovative use of autobiographical material. Issues examined include the role of history in sociology, postcolonialism, public sociology, the future of sociological theory, the turn to 'nature' and sociological careers.

*Provides a clear, yet panoramic analysis of how the concept of social control has been used by different theoretical traditions in the social sciences. *Connects contemporary changes in areas such as policing, penal systems and surveillance, with wider and deeper changes in the constitution of society. *Employs empirical examples to illustrate key conceptual points. *Develops an innovative argument about the nature and scope of social control in late-modern societies. Understanding Social Control investigates how the concept of social control has been used to capture the ways in which individ

The article is about the specificity of social control as an element of social management. The author indicates that social control is carried out within the subject-object relations. The author gives a detailed description of the participants of social relationships in social management and control. Particular attention is paid to analysis of the essential features acquired during interaction by participants of social relationships.

This study focuses on the ways that people interact around contemporary craft objects. The ambiguous quality of these objects holds people's attention and inhibits autobiographical narratives. The study focused on the relationship between the perceptual language used by participants and the ways in which they interacted with the objects. The analytical approach taken here begins with close observation and careful description of single cases and working towards valid generalisations rather than imposing an interpretation from the outset by explicitly positing a hypothesis. Six pairs of women were invited to participate in object handling conversations in an art museum setting. The conversations were recorded using digital video cameras. Analysis treated interaction as an embodied process and drew on work, which interprets interaction the outcome of social and cognitive processes. We found that the interplay of language and action shifted fluidly throughout the conversations. Not all actions were verbally expounded on and these could only be interpreted tentatively. Utterances could change the meaning or purpose of an action without any apparent change in the dynamics of the action. When attending a complex quality, such as the material nature of an object, the relationship between language and action was correspondingly complex. Participants used a variety of frameworks to understand the objects and these shaped the qualities of the objects that they attended to. Participants' words and actions could usefully be interpreted in terms of meaning rather than just social action and with reference to findings from cognitive research on perception and action.