If a setting is particularly crowded or noisy, for example, the individual may have more leeway in expressiveness than if the setting is quiet and contains only a few inhabitants. A fit of coughing is enough to attract attention in a library reading room; it is likely to go totally unnoticed at a football game when the crowd is screaming. So, too, the expected activities of a setting will alter the ambience of any particular act. Thus, accidentally catching another customer's eye in a drug store is less fraught with meaning than the same occurrence in a pick-up bar

XREF: Connects to Goffman's dramaturgical framing and situational logic, where setting context shapes permissible behavior.

XREF: Connects to Goffman's dramaturgical sociology and situational framing theories about how context shapes behavior and meaning.

Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order a…, loc. 1189