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Martina Löw
Cities obviously differ from each other. Sociologically, this difference becomessignificant when your aim is to ascertain the influence of local factors in a globalizingworld or to understand processes of societal differentiation. To do so, scholars in theareas of urban and regional sociology, community research and local policy can turnto a number of theoretical and empirical studies on cities, municipalities, or, lessspecifically, the local setting as societally formative units that resist global influences. Inthis article I continue to ask how cities socialize in a way that allows shared experienceto emerge in communities. Grounded in the sociology of knowledge shaped by Germanthinkers such as Max Weber, Alfred Schütz, Karl Mannheim, Peter L. Berger and ThomasLuckmann, my aim is to illustrate that specific stocks of knowledge based on habitualizedexperience arise in every city. Intrinsic logic captures the hidden structures of cities aslocally well-established, operative processes of sense-making along with their physical,material manifestations.
