Urban life produced a human type who knows others primarily by category

Evidence

The second, and perhaps less obvious, theme is that the city created a new kind of human being-the cosmopolitan-who was able, as his tribal ancestors were not, to relate to others in the new ways that city living made not only possible but necessary. The cosmopolitan did not lose the capacity for knowing others personally. But he gained the capacity for knowing others only categorically. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 1036

Categorization

• XREF: Directly bridges to reader’s purpose: this is the categorical-stranger cognition that Lofland’s framework places against Simmel’s blasé attitude and the reader’s observation of Julius in Cole. — connects to: Urban meanings resist my choice and present as thing-like as the in-itself; the MOC “The Forge and the Other: How Power, Discourse, and Encounter Cast the Self”