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Show - south central New York, found that the was within their oneo1 even own was 12 .,. divided into nineteen neighborhoods and lit frequency with whiGh people chose their best friends of eleven neighborhoods xceeded chnce by,a ratio t The ratio for urbanites would not b expected to be this' high, with respect to choices of minor friends, As Dunham claims, one throughout history not have to be of the things that let alone best friends. has drawn to cities people expectation that in cities they has been the would neighborly: Since the feudal serf recognized only too clearly that "city air is free ail",u the city has been the means for men to break the In the city man traditional ties of kinship and neighborhood. escapes gossip, which has been such an instrumet of social city man ,does not gossip coercing power for eontroling his garbled information which he mayor may Not that control in the rural area. but that lacks the city gossip behavior and not Urbanites, because those tens to become use.2 Biemer they happen pOints out, to live near neighbol"s with whom they mutually concerned about folkways and are them. not friendly with people just Rather, they share common or friendly immigrants lEdward a those who share young married couples who share problems of launching adult livs d whose children play Most authors say in variety of ways wha4 Dunham states together.3 quite clearly, Devereux, Jr., "Neighborhood and Community Journal of Social Issues, XVI, Noo 4 (1960), p. 72· 2Ho The City in University 127· Dunham, "-The City: Mid-Centm, Press, 19, 3Svend p. Co Warren Riemer, ed. p. with as interests, such neighborhood problems, ,adaptation problems are Participation," P,. Problem in Equilibrium and Control," (DetrOit: Wayne State H, Warren Dunham 169.' The Modern City (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1952), |
