In line with Norbert Elias’ process sociology, the chapter will concentrate on long-term changes of gendered dispositional figurations in Europe. By overthrowing the power of feudal noblemen, the burgerlijk (bourgeois) of the Dutch Golden Age incorporates certain aristocratic dispositions—first of all, the inclination for ostentatious consumption and the awareness of symbolic distinctions. The members of this social class possess dispositional bonds in the most diverse social contexts and co-ordinate their activities in far broader perspectives than any other group ever before in the Western world. Their case proves that the lengthening of the chains of interdependencies, including the pacification and psychologisation of behaviour, conditions the emergence of plural masculine dispositions.