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

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

Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.

One of the things people are fleeing when they leave the city is the need either to reject people who are less well educated than themselves, or to accept them with all that implies for their children's education and future placement in the society.

Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.

It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.

The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away the inessential preoccupations for those who do not flee from the thought of death into triviality.