填空题 Not too many decades ago it seemed "obvious" both to the general public and to sociologists that modern society haschanged people's natural relations, loosed their responsibilities 1to kins and neighbors, and substituted in their place 2for superficial relationships with passing acquaintances. 3However, in recent years a growing body of research has revealed that the "obvious" is not true. It seems that if you are a city resident, you typically know a smaller proportion of yourneighbors than you if you are a resident of a smaller community. 4But, for the most part, this fact has a few significant 5consequences. It does not necessarily follow that if you know few of your neighbors you will know no one else. Even in very large cities, people maintain close social ties within small, private social worlds. Indeed, the number and quality ofmeaningful relationships do not differ from more and less 6urban people. Small-town residents are more involved with kinthan do big-city residents. Yet city dwellers compensate by 7developing friendships with people who share similar interests and activities. Urbanism may produce a different style of life,but the quality of life does not differ between town and city. Nor 8are residents of large communities any likely to display 9psychological symptoms of stress or alienation than are residents of smaller communities. However, city dwellers doworry more about crime, and which leads them to a distrust of 10strangers.