This paper is about the part which objects play in scripting the practices and strategies of their users. Goffman uses the concept of script to make sense of the conventional ordering of social interaction and the definition and maintenance of social worlds. As adopted by Latour (1992), Akrich...

This article considers the increasing popularity of showering in the UK. We use this case as a means of exploring some of the dimensions and dynamics of everyday practice. Drawing upon a range of documentary evidence, we begin by sketching three possible explanations for the current constitution...

This note responds to John Urry\'s contribution and draws on my own presentation at the BSA Presidential Event on \'How to put \'Society\' into Climate Change\', held on 8th February 2010 at the British Library.