Material possessions

Sociology tends to consider people in relation to people, whether it looks at micro or macro situations. As a discipline it involves a tendency to overlook the impact of objects on social relations. What I want to bring into the context of sociology are the ways that things interact with human beings in social settings the help constitute the relations between people. What I wish to suggest is that 'things', that is inanimate objects, are far more important to social life and the life of society than sociology recognizes.