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.

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

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

American Dream Helper.

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

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

"Apparently, fifty is the new unemployed."

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

"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."

'Lessons have been learned.'

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

Disparate housewives.

Multi-Cultural Society

"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'."

Alcohol and the Fruits of Intemperance

Begging - poor man and graduate.

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

School Signs of the Times.

'I've been called some mean things as a baby boomer, but 'Pig in the Python' really hurts.'

'Tell me more about this globalisation.'

'I hate her...'

Class Clowns