Urbanites normalize eccentric behavior when they cannot avoid it

Evidence

However, as we also have seen, in situations where avoidance is impossible, normalization is the rule. In the following example, note how hard the more conventional urbanites must work to keep the eccentric from suspecting that her behavior is seen as even slightly odd: A working class woman, late forties or early fifties, is seated at one of the horseshoe counters in a large coffee shop in a bus depot. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 1021

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘normalization’ as the urban response to unavoidable oddity, a key mechanism in Lofland’s stranger-order typology.