"How could a gentleman become a tarpaulin without loosing caste, without lowering his sociual status?" (Norbert Elias Archive (part 1), Inv.-Nr. 505 (Appendix; cited after Moelker 2004, p. 374);

"It was thus that the occupation of a naval officer became gradually a gentlemen's profession ..." (Norbert Elias Archive (part 1), Inv.-Nr. 510 (p. 6; cited after Moelker 2004, p. 374);

"The history of a profession is part of the social and economic history of its country." ( Norbert Elias Archive (part 1), Inv.-Nr. 517 (Appendix; cited after Moelker 2004, p. 378);

"Makrostrukturen durch die Untersuchung von Mikrostrukturen sichtbar zu machen." (Norbert Elias Archive (part 1), Inv.-Nr. 518 (Appendix; cited after Moelker 2004, p. 378);

(remark: "tarpaulin" refers to traditional (lower to middle class) seamen, which worked manually on a British Navy ship and slept on deck "before the mast" under tarred canvas (= "tar//paulin").

(remark: "gentleman" refers to courtiers as military officers (upper class), which commanded on a British Navy ship the soldiers and military operations; they - at the beginning - kept "after the mast" strictly apart form the seamen ).

sources: 
Norbert Elias Archive (Marbach/BRD), 
René Moelker: Norbert Elias, marine supremacy and the naval profession, in: British Journal of Sociology (London/UK: Routledge & Kegan Paul), vol. 54 no.3 (2004), pp. 373-390