Dražen Cepić is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Sociology at the University of Zadar, Croatia and completed his doctorate at the European University Institute, Florence

• 1. Introduction 2. The Uses of Culture Among the Croatian Upper Middle Class 3. Rocking in a Free World: Postsocialist Entrepreneurs and Narratives of Success 4. The Few and the Many: The Working Class in Eastern Europe 5. Friendship and Equality: Cross-Class Sociability in the Postsocialist Context 6. Conclusion Appendix 1: List of respondents Appendix 2: Sampling procedure Appendix 3: Social network analysis