Preindustrial city streets displayed suffering and mutilation at levels incomprehensible to moderns

Evidence

A secondary trait is tolerance. He not only is not thrown by diversity, he relishes it, finding in his city’s wide array of life-styles, a source of genuine personal pleasure. While he is “justly angered” with cruelty, the exploitive use of power, and unfair physical violence, he looks with amusement and a certain fondness on the minor vices, his own or those of his fellow urbanites. He couples and tempers this tolerance, however, with toughness. He understands and is willing to accept that life, particularly urban life, is struggle, is conflict, is sometimes pain. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 937 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

Related

• Preindustrial cities made social differences visually overt and legible (similarity 0.83)
• Preindustrial cities mixed extreme social strata and occupations openly (similarity 0.82)
• Preindustrial city streets served as venues for activities modern cities segregate into specialized spaces (similarity 0.81)
• The skilled city dweller counters diversity-tolerance with a toughness that accepts urban struggle (similarity 0.81)
• Preindustrial cities were overtly and visibly socially heterogeneous (similarity 0.80)
• Preindustrial urban heterogeneity differed by being overtly displayed, not by existing (similarity 0.80)
• Historic cities permanently marked criminals through bodily branding to advertise moral difference (similarity 0.79)
• Preindustrial city residents encountered social diversity at their own doorstep (similarity 0.79)
• Preindustrial urban heterogeneity was overt and externally marked, unlike modern anonymity. (similarity 0.79)
• Preindustrial cities relied primarily on appearance with spatial segregation as a secondary cue (similarity 0.79)
• Preindustrial urban diversity looks like disorder only because its ordering principle differs (similarity 0.79)
• The early industrial city uniquely required explicit teaching of urban manners (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Urban tolerance is tempered with an acceptance of conflict and pain #expands (0.60) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 937
• Historic cities permanently marked criminals through bodily branding to advertise moral difference #exemplifies (0.55)
• Preindustrial cities relied primarily on appearance with spatial segregation as a secondary cue #qualifies (0.50)
• Distant violence can become more graphic rather than more abstract #corroborates (0.50)
• Preindustrial urban heterogeneity differed by being overtly displayed, not by existing #corroborates (0.50)