“…However, the priority that is placed on security and stability coexists with a considerable amount of social rigidity, social closure and immobility. This is typified by a variety of factors including: the momentum of traditional status differentiations, such as social-cultural differences between Arbeiter, Angestellte, and Beamte (blue collar workers, white collar workers, and civil servants with tenure); a high degree of protectionism for the old, petty bourgeois middle class and for the new, wage dependent middle class; comparatively low levels of social mobility; and a fairly strong segmentation between the employed and the unemployed (Kocka 1981;Hartwich 1970;Muller 1986).…”