The air is still fresh; hardy foreigners can head to the beaches on the Lido (where some businesses are still closed). May is really the best month for seeing Italy, with its sunshine, comfortable temperatures and flowers (not so many of these in Venice, of course). Good points: sunshine; comfortable climate.
Weddings are a heightened example of what sociologist Erving Goffman called front stage behavior. Goffman viewed social life as something akin to a performance, where we attempt to manage the impressions we make to others.
Degree in Sociology. Sociologyâthe scientific study of human social behaviorâis a relatively new discipline. The first social surveyâthat is, the collection of responses from individualsâcan be traced back to the 11th century, but sociology didnât rise to the auspices of âscienceâ until the end of the 19th century.