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"'Perhaps there isn't so much difference really between their (ancient Romans) wickedness and ours (modern Romans). It may be just a matter of scope and opportunity.'"

--A quote attributed to Tiberius Claudius (A.D. 5) Graves, Robert. I, Claudius. Harmondsworth, New York: Penguin Books, 1934.

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The good 'ol days weren't always good, and tomorrow's not as bad as it seems.

--Billy Joel

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Sociology (or anything else for that matter) got you stressed out? Don't worry, Stress Reduction is just a click away.

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"Proud of our individuality, even in painful times, we resist the idea that we act in socially patterned ways."

--Macionis, John J. Sociology. 5th Ed. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1995.

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The judiciary represents a unit within the political institutional system. The role of this unit was aptly described as "the poor man's shield against oppression and the rich man's defense against the mob."

--Florida Supreme Court Justice Glenn Terrell.

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Activism is not inconsistent with science. Check out the editorial cartoon printed on the same page. (Story from and copyrighted by the Tallahassee Democrat)

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The cultural battle between the materialistic individualism of the United States verses the collectivism of Cuba has been brought to the forefront with the plight of Elian Gonzalez. (Story from and copyrighted by the Associated Press)

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Critical of those advocating, and the effects of, a macro view of social reality, Robert Bolt makes the case in the preface of his play for symbolic-interactionism.

"Because men work we may speak of an economy, not the other way around. Because men worship we may speak of a religion, not the other way around....But in practice our theoreticians seem more and more to work the other way around, to derive the worker from his economy, the thinker from his culture, and we to derive even ourselves from our society and our location in it."

--Bolt, Robert. A Man For All Seasons. New York, New York: Vintage International, 1960.

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