Appearance and location clues sometimes give way to behavioral coding.

Evidence

Nevertheless, there are occasions and situations in which the urbanite is called upon to code the other’s behavior as a means of identifying him. Sometimes, for example, the appearential and I or locational clues are incomplete or indistinct and take on certainty only with the addition of behavioral ones, as is often the case when one is attempting to identify the clerks in a retail store. Or, if the other is not acting in the manner which his appearance and location clearly predicted he would, then the primary clues may have to be discarded entirely and an identification made on the basis of behavior alone. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 608

Categorization

• XREF: Fits the reader’s cross-reading with Simmel and Cole: when appearance/location coding fails or ambiguity arises, behavioral reading becomes the backstop—relevant to how urban anonymity forces deeper inference.