Middletown’s empirical detail still revealed stark working-versus-business class division.

Evidence

Despite its passion for detailed description, the study showed that the town’s population clearly fell into the categories working class' and business class’, and that the town belonged to `them up there’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 580

Categorization

• XREF: Complements the ‘Grafting & Growth’ piece’s interest in how infra-structural descriptions can still reveal power relations; also resonates with community power studies.