Alan Brien

Society

34 things every sociologist knows

• 14 August 2006

Taken from the New Statesman archive, 1 May 1970. How many of these might you hear today? Number 2 and number 12, certainly, and perhaps number 34, which like a few others at least ought to be true. Whatever the reality was in 1970, I wonder how many modern Hull bridegrooms have met their wives at public dances. Alan Brien, critic, columnist and wit, was a regular contributor to the magazine in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Selected by Brian Cathcart