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In this article I consider the impact of social epistemologies for understanding the object of the syringe. My aim is to examine the process through which the syringe transforms from an injecting device to a tool of social and political inquiry. Paying particular attention to the uses of Foucault, Becker, Bourdieu, Freud and Latour in empirical studies of injecting heroin use, I examine the sociology of the syringe through the lens of habit and habitus, discourse and deviance, mourning and melancholia, attachment and agencement. In pursuing the theory behind the object my goal is to address a sociological object in the making. In so doing I show how the syringe has been significant for social research, social theory, and sociology. It is the difference the object makes that this article seeks to describe. In tracing the epistemology of the syringe I show how the object is important not just for knowledge of addiction but sociology itself.

Building on the range of methods available to the roaming sociological imagination, curating sociology is concerned with instituting 'live' public encounters. Contending that there are practices in the history of sociology that can be considered instances of curating sociology, this article makes a case for harnessing these to inventive research processes today. The discussion in this article draws attention to recent developments in curating before excavating a selection of practices within sociology upon which we can reflexively build live methods with consideration to creative collaborations, publicness and exhibiting as research. Each of these involves a degree of mutation within the craft of sociology. By way of illustration, the final section of the article explores an in-depth case study of curating sociology for the Noise of the Past project, which involved us, as sociologists, collaborating with creative practitioners and 'curating' a large-scale public event.

Appropriate as a supplemental text to courses in Sociology. Providing an overview grounded in research. Developments in Sociology focuses on the major areas of theoretical, methodological and substantive developments in sociology. Each author takes a field of study in which they are an acknowledged expert and highlights the way in which the subject has developed over the last fifty years

"Sociology is interested in the way people shape the society the live in, and the way a society shapes them. Simply, it is the study of what modern society is and how it functions. In the series' inimitable style, Introducing Sociology traces the origins of sociology from industrialization, revolution and the Enlightenment through to globalization, neoliberalism and the fear of nationalism--introducing you to key thinkers, movements and concepts along the way. You will develop insight into the world around you, as you engage your 'sociological imagination' and explore studies of the city, theories of power and knowledge, concepts of national, racial and sexual identity, and much more"--Back cover

The historicality of individuals -- Human nature in processual thinking -- Linked ecologies -- Lyrical sociology -- The problem of excess -- The idea of outcome -- Social processes and social order -- Inequality as a process -- Professionalism empirical and moral

Cover -- Contents -- Series Note -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 - Sociological Inroads into Medicine: A Tribute to Aneeta A. Minocha (1943-2007) -- 2 - Food: The Immanent Cause from Outside-Medical Lore on Food and Health in Village Tamil Nadu -- 3 - State Sponsored Health Care in Rural Uttar Pradesh: Grassroots Encounters of a Survey Researcher -- 4 - Gram Panchayat and Health Care Delivery in Himachal Pradesh -- 5 - Occupational Attitudes of Physicians -- 6 - The System of Hope: The Constitution of Identity in Medical Institutions -- 7 - Voice of Illness and Voice of Medicine in Doctor-Patient Interaction -- 8 - Narratives of Sickness and Suffering: A Study of Malaria in South Gujarat -- 9 - Caste Variations in Reproductive Health Status of Women: A Study of Three Eastern States -- 10 - Informal Social Networks, Sonography and Female Foeticide in India -- 11 - Perception and Work Ethos of Medical Experts Dealing with Infertile Couples: A Study in Medical Sociology -- 12 - 'Correcting' the Reproductive 'Impairment': Infertility Treatment Seeking Experiences of Low Income Group Women in Mumbai Slums -- 13 - Risk Culture, Propertied Classes, and Dynamics of aRegion: A Study of HIV/AIDSin East Godavari District(Andhra Pradesh) -- 14 - Prison Inmate Awarenessof HIV and AIDS in Durban, South Africa -- 15 - Medicalisation of Mental Disorder: Shifting Epistemologies and Beyond -- 16 - 'Indigenisation' Not'Indianisation' of Psychiatry:An Anthropological Perspective -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Appendix of Sources.

In this article, the author considers alternative forms for writing sociology and the question of audience(s) for sociological writing. The author briefly discusses a poststructuralist approach to knowledge, acknowledges her own writing history, and then presents a narrative, "Chicago 1940," which situates sociological conceptualization in an autoethnography.