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In discussing the process of communication, Loomis defines it as `` the process by which information, decisions, and directives are transmitted among actors and the ways in which knowledge, opinions, and attitudes are formed, or modified by interaction ''.
Communication may be facilitated by means of the high visibility within the larger community.
Intense interaction is easier where segregated living and occupational segregation mark off a group from the rest of the community, as in the case of this population.
However, the factor of physical isolation is not a static situation.
Although the Brandywine population is still predominantly rural, `` there are indications of a consistent and a statistically significant trend away from the older and relatively isolated rural communities.
Urbanization appears to be an important factor in the disintegration of this group.
This conclusion is, however, an over-simplification.
A more realistic analysis must take into account the fact that Brandywine people in the urban-fringe area are, in general, less segregated locally than group members in rural areas.
In the urban area, in other words, they, unlike some urban ethnic groups, do not concentrate in ghetto colonies.
Group pressures toward conformity are slight or non-existent, and deviant behavior in mate selection incurs few if any social sanctions.
In such a setting social contacts and associations are likely to be heterogamous, resulting in a change of values and, almost necessarily, in mate selection behavior.
To the extent that urban life contributes to the breakdown of the group patterns of residential isolation, to that extent it contributes directly to increased exogamy ''.
Social control.

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