In this article, the author considers alternative forms for writing sociology and the question of audience(s) for sociological writing. The author briefly discusses a poststructuralist approach to knowledge, acknowledges her own writing history, and then presents a narrative, "Chicago 1940," which situates sociological conceptualization in an autoethnography.
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