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bourgeois (typography), the name of the type size between brevier and long primer; H. L. Bourgeois High School, Gray, Louisiana, United States; Bourgeois is a synonym for these wine grapes: Elbling, in the Mosel region; Gouais blanc, historic white grape; Bourgeois fish, a common name for Lutjanus sebae, a snapper from the Indo-West Pacific
The Modern French word bourgeois (/ ˈ b ʊər ʒ w ɑː / ⓘ BOORZH-wah or / b ʊər ˈ ʒ w ɑː / ⓘ boorzh-WAH, French: ⓘ) derived from the Old French borgeis or borjois ('town dweller'), which derived from bourg ('market town'), from the Old Frankish burg ('town'); in other European languages, the etymologic derivations include the Middle English burgeis, the Middle Dutch burgher, the ...
In regular times, the petite bourgeoisie seek to identify themselves with the haute bourgeoisie, whose bourgeois morality, conduct and lifestyle they aspire and strive to imitate. [ 1 ] The term, which goes as far back as the Revolutionary period in France, if not earlier, is politico-economic and addresses historical materialism .
Articles relating to the bourgeoisie, a sociologically defined social class, especially in contemporary times, referring to people with a certain cultural and financial capital belonging to the middle or upper middle class: the upper (haute), middle (moyenne), and petty (petite) bourgeoisie (which are collectively designated "the bourgeoisie"); an affluent and often opulent stratum of the ...
Bourgeois revolution is a term used in Marxist theory to refer to a social revolution that aims to destroy a feudal system or its vestiges, establish the rule of the bourgeoisie, and create a capitalist state. [1] [2] In colonised or subjugated countries, bourgeois revolutions often take the form of a war of national independence.
The term Bildungsbürgertum was coined in 1920s Germany, by the political right wing to communicate anti-bourgeois sentiment based upon the perceived incompatibility of temperament in a person who claims to being both a 'genuine' intellectual and a Bürger, a bourgeois.
beurgeois, from beur and bourgeois; Cocacolonization, from Coca-Cola and colonization [2] copaganda, from cop and propaganda; democrazy, from democracy and crazy [48] Demoncrat, from demon and Democrat; Eracism, from erase and racism; feminazi, from feminist and Nazi; Gerrymander, from Elbridge Gerry and salamander [49] [2] kayaktivism, from ...
Embourgeoisement is the theory that posits the migration of individuals into the bourgeoisie as a result of their own efforts or collective action, such as that taken by unions in the United States and elsewhere in the 1930s to the 1960s [citation needed] that established middle class-status for factory workers and others that would not have been considered middle class by their employments.