Etiquette regulates which conversations get a comfortable public context

Evidence

I will call the process of creating contexts for political conversation ‘‘civic practices,’ or, interchangeably, ‘‘political manners’’ or ‘‘etiquette.’’*° This etiquette implicitly takes into account a relationship to the wider world; politeness, beliefs, and power intertwine, in practice, through this sense of civility. The concept, then, refers to citizens’ companionable ways of creating and maintaining a comfortable context for talk in the public sphere. — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 180

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘political manners/etiquette’ as the operative mechanism for building civic contexts.
• XREF: connects to: Good manners can work against the functioning of the public sphere. — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 102; Shared non-routine and crowded conditions legitimize stranger conversation — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 1001; Etiquette taught that cross-street speech violated public-decency codes — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 676 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Etiquette taught that cross-street speech violated public-decency codes #exemplifies (0.90) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 676
• Opening talk with strangers fails in spaces governed by task-focused norms #expands (0.85) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 1012
• Shared non-routine and crowded conditions legitimize stranger conversation #expands (0.82) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 1001