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.
The first Haagen-Dazs ice cream store was opened in 1976, and then the rights were sold to the Pillsbury Company in 1983. Since that time, their ice cream stores have sprouted up all over Europe and the US. There are 260 franchises in the US, and many others in 50 other countries.