Sociology Gifts

"It sort of makes you stop and think, doesn't it."

"I'm a social scientist, Michael. That means I can't explain electricity or anything like that, but if you ever want to know about people I'm your man."

Utopia - a necessarily restrictive and conformist social structure.

Sociologists on Strike! Nation in Peril!!

Canadian Lemmings

"Actually, Lou, I think it was more than just my being in the right place at the right time. I think it was my being the right race, the right religion, the right sex, the right socioeconomic group, having the right accent, the right clothes, going to the right schools..."

Set of scales with white family on one side and black people on the other.

'Have you noticed it, too?'

The elephant in the room.

"Interesting, but we can never forget that you went to a state college."

"I love our lunches out there, but I always get the feeling that we're being watched."

Brainwashing

The only Universal Truths that all religions agree upon.

"And finally, would you say your fear of crime has increased?"

'The trouble with a melting pot is that sombody always gets burned.'

American Dream Helper.

'My opinion? Are you sure I'm supposed to have one?'

"What I drink and what I tell the pollsters I drink are two different things."

"Apparently, fifty is the new unemployed."

'Lessons have been learned.'

"Here I was, all this time, worrying that maybe I'm a selfish person, and now it turns out I've been suffering from compassion fatigue."

'You don't really fit in around here, Peggy!'

'Isn't it amazing just how quickly an 'us' and 'them' scenario develops?'

Multi-Cultural Society

Disparate housewives.

"'Birds of a feather flock together.' You hear what I'm saying, pal?"

Alcohol and the Fruits of Intemperance

"A great leader is a dealer in hope, Fenwick. Remember that."

"It's just force of habit. When I say 'cavemen' I of course mean 'cavepersons'."

School Signs of the Times.

Class Clowns

Conflict is harder to sustain when you don't see everything in black and white.

'Tell me more about this globalisation.'

I'm here to update your census form. Since you mailed the form in, have any of your children moved back in with you?

Right-thinking people against wrong-thinking people