On “Things” Making Social Possible: Glass, Clock, Contraceptives

This theoretical study aims to elaborate on an alternative approach, proposing that social relations are made possible by inanimate objects. For example, the means of production, which are used as a category of analysis in social theory, have been tried to be understood by investigating only their social projections, without mentioning these tools themselves. The main aim of this study is to reconsider this theoretical attitude, which results from sociology's view of lonely people as a category of analysis and which creates a deficiency in making sense of historical and social dynamics. In this context, by combining knowledge archaeology and Actor Network Theory, it is aimed to explain things as tools that make the social possible and to present the thesis that gender-based dynamics and/or social class, can also be investigated with this method.