This article focuses upon unnoticed objects in the home, such as those stuffed in a junk drawer, to explore how we can be attentive to the everyday in cultivating a ‘live sociology’ which illuminates the close at hand, locating the shared, public and moral in the everyday. I argue that attentiveness to the vibrancy of everyday things can expand the possibilities of a vital sociology. Attentiveness is a way to retrain the ‘sociological gaze’ away from the unusual to the unnoticed elements of everyday lives and objects. I consider here both what we are attentive to – affects, connections, potentials, materiality – as well as how we can cultivate attentiveness – through ‘being-with’ data and forms of slow scholarship. I do this by drawing on fieldwork in the UK on objects that are kept but not currently being used. Forgotten things covered with dust on a shelf may seem ‘dead’ or inert, yet framing these as ‘dormant’ exposes their histories, hauntings as well as imagined futures. The article takes case studies of junk drawers, bags of old cables, and other unnoticed objects to explore what happens when we are attentive to dormant things and how a seemingly personal and private collection allows the possibilities for connection and can materialise people’s hopes, and expose social inequities. Finally, I develop the ethics of attentiveness as both a practical engagement in research as well as a core value of a vital sociology in how we tell people’s stories.

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生活方法和生活事物：培养对休眠事物的关注，以发展对日常生活的重要社会学

本文聚焦于家中未被注意的物品，例如塞在垃圾抽屉里的物品，探讨我们如何关注日常生活，培养一种“活的社会学”，照亮近在咫尺的东西，在日常生活中找到共享的、公共的和道德的。我认为，关注日常事物的活力可以扩大重要社会学的可能性。专注是一种重新训练“社会学凝视”的方式，从日常生活和物体中不寻常的元素转向不被注意的元素。我在这里既考虑了我们关注什么——情感、联系、潜力、物质性——也考虑了我们如何通过“与数据共存”和缓慢的学术形式来培养注意力。我通过借鉴英国对保存但当前未使用的物品的田野调查来做到这一点。被遗忘在架子上被灰尘覆盖的东西可能看起来“死了”或惰性，但将它们框定为“休眠”暴露了它们的历史、困扰以及想象的未来。本文以垃圾抽屉、旧电缆袋和其他未被注意的物体为例，探讨了当我们关注休眠事物时会发生什么，以及看似个人和私人的收藏如何允许联系的可能性，实现人们的希望，并揭露社会不平等。最后，我将专注伦理学发展为一种实际的研究参与，也是我们如何讲述人们故事的重要社会学的核心价值。