Avoidance devices are combined fluidly and are not tied to fixed social categories

Evidence

First, the above devices may be combined in a wide variety of ways, and any given individual will utilize one or more of them depending on his or her own situation. Thus a person may have created a dispersed village for himself, but utilize body management whenever he must move outside its boundaries. Or, a long-time city dweller who has lived in different areas of the city may have several neighborhoods which serve him as modified concentrated villages. And he may combine these with home territories outside the neighborhoods. Or, even the least skillful and most protected villager (for example, older women in ethnic ghettoes) may have several sites within the village that are more home territories than are other sections of the village. What I am suggesting then, is that we must not think of any given device as being used exclusively by any particular category or categories of persons. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 924