Stranger arrivals always disrupted everyday life in pre-urban communities
Evidence
The arrival of a stranger or group of strangers in these little enclaves of personal knowing was (and in some parts of the world still is) a truly remarkable and momentous event. Just how remarkable and how momentous depended on numerous related factors: the degree of the group’s isolation, past experience with such events, the extent to which the stranger’s appearance differed from that of the receiving group, the group’s social organization and belief system, and so forth. But never were such appearances merely routine. They always occasioned the interruption, to some degree, of everyday activities. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 40
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: The contrast with modern urban settings where strangers are routine, uninterrupted presences underscores the reader’s flâneur analysis.
Related
- Strangers always disrupted daily routines in small communities (similarity 0.95)
- Strangers only become problematic when they appear routinely (similarity 0.82)
- Urban dwellers evolve from fearing strangers to managing them easily (similarity 0.82)
- Pre-modern stranger responses survive in modern cities in modified form (similarity 0.79)
- Preindustrial city residents encountered social diversity at their own doorstep (similarity 0.78)