The same practices gain distinct functions when relocated to urban settings

Evidence

I do not mean to suggest that all the costuming, body marking, and linguistic practices about to be described were limited to urban areas. The reader should bear in mind that city people always share many beliefs, activities, and practices with their rural neighbors, and city influences always extend outward. As should already be clear, my concern is not with uniquely urban activities and practices but with unique meanings and functions which these activities and practices have in urban settings. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 1098

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the book’s core analytic stance: it seeks urban meanings and functions, not uniquely urban activities.
• XREF: connects to: The quality of a place and season transforms the same activity into something different — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 197