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.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Primary socialisation (or primary socialization) in sociology is the acceptance and learning of a set of norms and values established through the process of socialization. Typically this is initiated by the family. Primary socialisation occurs during childhood and is when a child learns the attitudes, values and actions appropriate to individuals as members of a particular culture.