Definitions eventually become unavoidable for analyzing city dwellers.

Evidence

In the foregoing pages, I have used terms like “personally-known others” and “strangers” without being very exact about just what they imply. Assuming that the common sense understandings of the reader would be sufficient for him to follow the narrative, I have not wanted to clutter it with matters of definition. The time has come, however, when such matters can no longer safely be ignored. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 95

Categorization

• XREF: Shows Lofland’s method of delaying formal definition until it becomes analytically necessary.