Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.

In preindustrial cultures leisure is scarcely a burden or a "problem" because it is built into the ritual and ground plan of life for which people are conditioned in childhood; often they possess a relatively timeless attitude toward events.

There has been a change in heroes within the working-class community

Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism.

The situation of the factory worker today is reminiscent in certain respects of that of the nineteenth-century capitalist whose wife dragged him reluctantly toward "culture" and away from his "materialistic" preoccupations.

If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women.

Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.