urban practices are distinctive not in origin but in meaning and function

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

Category: Definitional Content

• XREF: Reinforces the reader’s cross-reading with Simmel and Lofland’s own frame: the categorical apparatus of the city, not the materials, is what distinguishes urban social order.

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• The same practices gain distinct functions when relocated to urban settings (similarity 0.95)
• Urban reading skills are learned, not innate products of culture. (similarity 0.85)
• Urban meanings are taught from birth as coded instructions. (similarity 0.84)
• Urban life produced a human type who knows others primarily by category (similarity 0.83)
• Urban competence requires both meaning-knowledge and movement skills (similarity 0.83)
• Urban avoidance and urban adventuring are contrasting behavioral poles of city life (similarity 0.83)
• Modern cities specialize public space and mask citizens’ heterogeneity (similarity 0.83)
• Skilled city dwellers integrate appearance, location, and behavior cues (similarity 0.82)
• Urban competence rests on reading strangers’ appearances, locations, and behaviors (similarity 0.81)
• The early industrial city uniquely required explicit teaching of urban manners (similarity 0.80)
• Preindustrial cities made social differences visually overt and legible (similarity 0.80)
• Urban strangerhood is a poetic framing that requires precise specification. (similarity 0.79)
• Urban history shifts identity-reading from appearance cues to location cues (similarity 0.79)
• Urban spatial knowledge is transmitted mostly through personal verbal instruction. (similarity 0.79)
• City dwellers are taught from birth to code strangers by appearance, place, and behavior (similarity 0.79)