Repeated casual encounters gradually convert total strangers into known individuals

Evidence

When these conventional encounters occur repeatedly in a single public locale, they become part of the process by which the individual establishes a patron or, even, a colonizer relationship to the locale. But even when they are not part of this process, they are one of the mechanisms by which total strangers are transformed into personally-known others. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 992

Categorization

• XREF: Speaks directly to the reader’s core cross-reading with Simmel and Cole: how the detached flaneur might resist or refuse this conversion mechanism by which strangers become personally known.