According to sociologist Erving Goffman, a powerful agent of socialization is total institution. He coined this term to refer to a place in which people are cut off from the rest of society and where they come under almost total control of the officials who are in charge.
In the Western U.S. and Texas, Breyers ice cream is sometimes confused with Dreyer's ice cream. While Henry Breyer founded Breyers in 1908 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, William Dreyer and Joseph Edy co-founded their ice cream company, Edy's Grand Ice Cream, in 1928 in Oakland, California.
As late as 1992, Brenham was the sole source for Blue Bell ice cream. Third Plant in Oklahoma In 1993, the company built a third plant in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, a suburb of Tulsa, and in 1996 it purchased and began renovation of an ice cream plant in Sylacauga, Alabama, southeast of Birmingham.