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The article illustrates ongoing discussions about a new social divide in the United States, Great Britain, France and Germany. It explains differences of terminologies as well as similarities in the sociostructural description of polarized political and social camps. Selfperformed studies about the academic milieu of the "bobos" show that the interconnectedness of sociostructural-economic situations and cultural identities makes mediation impossible. In the end, the article pledges for a new focus in the search for mediation, not in 'the middle' between two conflicting parties but in a formalized third party: the procedure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]