The sociolegy of music has often concentraied less on analyzing and understanding the spocity and
me anings of musical material cultere as both an object and a process and a process and more a bout ransacking music for insights into wider social constitution like. class,race nad gander.The social constitution of music and the musical consitution of the so cial deserve a more sustained aftempl at explicating relations and why music is importanl for sociohogy but also begins to problem the relationship between social science and material culture by moving beyond popular music studies and the study of music more generally to examine the sociology of sound and sound art.We argue that this raises difficulties of the whole concept of the social as part of a more hunnsed and eritical understanding of sociologiealepistemologies and the odjects and processes they seek to explicate