 Much like the Marxist critics of that period, Weber was concerned with the growing ability of large corporations and nations to increase their power and reach throughout the world.Beyond the intellectual realms of political economy, history, and political science that discuss, describe, and analyse the "bourgeoisie" as a social class, the colloquial usage of the sociological terms "bourgeois" and "bourgeoise" describe the social stereotypes of the old money and of the "nouveau riche", who is a politically timid conformist satisfied with a wealthy, consumerist style of life characterised by conspicuous consumption and the continual striving for prestige.This being the case, the cultures of the world describe the philistinism of the middle-class personality, produced by the excessively rich life of the bourgeoisie, is examined and analysed in comedic and dramatic plays, novels, and films.