Declaring oneself host of a locale legitimizes initiating contact there

Evidence

The primacy of place in pre-modern settings has been largely destroyed by disembedding and time-space distanciation. Place has become phantasmagoric because the structures by means of which it is constituted are no longer locally organised. The local and the global, in other words, have become inextricably intertwined. Feelings of close attachment to or identification with places still persist. But these are themselves disembedded: they do not just express locally based practices and involvements but are shot through with much more distant influences. Even the smallest of neighbourhood stores, for example, probably obtains its goods from all over the world. The local community is not a saturated environment of familiar, taken-for-granted meanings, but in some large part a locally-situated expression of distanciated relations. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 260 (#expands, via linked claim)

The counterpart of displacement is reembedding. The disembedding mechanisms lift social relations and the exchange of information out of specific time-space contexts, but at the same time provide new opportunities for their reinsertion. This is another reason why it is a mistake to see the modern world as one in which large, impersonal systems increasingly swallow up most of personal life. The self-same processes that lead to the destruction of older city neighbourhoods and their replacement by towering office-blocks and skyscrapers often permit the gentrification of other areas and a recreation of locality. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 342 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Others’ signaled openness governs whether one initiates talk; Body language overrides even legitimized interaction openings; Seating distance from strangers encodes unspoken interaction signals with systematic rules (+3 more)

Related

• Modern place is a local expression of distant, disembedded relations (similarity 0.84)
• Impersonal modern systems paradoxically enable reembedding of local personal life (similarity 0.82)
• Local place-based relations gave pre-modern communities solidity (similarity 0.81)
• Modernity does not replace intimacy with impersonality but transforms it through distancing (similarity 0.81)
• Modern displacement integrates people into globalised communities rather than estranging them (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Modern place is a local expression of distant, disembedded relations #expands (0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 260
• Others’ signaled openness governs whether one initiates talk #qualifies (0.70)
• Impersonal modern systems paradoxically enable reembedding of local personal life #corroborates (0.70) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 342
• Body language overrides even legitimized interaction openings #qualifies (0.60)
• Seating distance from strangers encodes unspoken interaction signals with systematic rules #exemplifies (0.50)