The Berliner Morgenpost
today (21/12/2009) under the heading knowledge an article entitled "The Germans and their Christmas," published in which each state will be allocated in society.
It is perfectly true that conservative sociologists like all people divided into classes, because one has to finally know where you belong and where even the others has yet categorized. Finally, it would be a disaster if we do not know one has to belong. But somehow, the type of classification seems probably more about the immersion hurried than the scheduled to testify:
The categorization is evidence of a strong elite consciousness. On the one hand, the Conservatives, the educated middle class, on the other hand, the modern hedonists than lower class (sic). Of interest is the classification of consumer materialism as a pure social-favored lower class milieu, as if there were in the "upper class" no consumer materialism.