| Sumario: | This article concerns one area of a larger study of social class differences in the life style, values and personalities of German men. The analysis phase of the research is still in progress, and for the purpose of this paper one life style area has been selected to illustrate the methodological approach and the kinds of findings the study is developing. The data for the study are approximately 300 interviews conducted in the various areas of West Germany. One form concentrated on these men's behavior in connection with secondary institutions and leisure time activity--work, church, associations and clubs, politics and government, economic behavior, mass media habits and leisure time activities at home and outside; a second interview form concerned daily routine, family relationships and friendship patterns. Respondents were asked to discuss their family life, the sharing and the division of responsibilities, to describe their wives as individuals, their wives' assets and limitations, and similarly to describe themselves, and their own assets and limitations.
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