Socijalni miljei u kafanama: posmatranje
Social Milieuxs In Pubs And Restaurants: An Observation

Summary/Abstract: The concept of social milieux has had an extraordinary renaissance in the german-speaking social sciences in the last 25 years. The analysis of social structures often uses the notion of social milieux as an alternative to concept of social class, in order to group the population into societal macro-milieus. Exemplified by Gerhard Schulze’s notion of experience-milieus this paradigm seems to inherit the problem of class analytic sociology with its macro sociological focus. In contrast we develop a concept of plural milieux-belonging, that takes the heterogeneity and fragmentation of social networks of actors into account. Our empirical study of visitors of pubs and restaurants shows that the social milieuxs we observed in this leisure context could not be associated with specific societal macro-milieus in a simple way. Rather they were constituted by complex configurations of different criteria (class, gender, age). Equally, the structures of companionship inside the different milieuxs turned out to be quite heterogeneous. Whereas, e. g. communication structures in a working-clas milieux including all age groups were strongly gender homogamous, they were markedly geneder-heterogamous in the middle-clas milieu. While the constitution of social milieus in our empirical study seems to be quite complex, their association with different types of pubs and restaurants is mainly explained by the price-level of the latter, a rather tradi- tional vertical characteristic of social structure analysis. Our micro-approach therefore does not only allow the discovery of the complexity of social milieu formation, but fur- theremore opens the possivility of rather simple empirical explanations.

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