bourgeoisie [(boor-zhwah-zee)] In general, the middle class. Applied to the Middle Ages, it refers to townspeople, who were neither nobles nor peasants. In Marxism it refers to those who control the means of production and do not live directly by the sale of their labor. Karl Marx distinguished between the “haute” (high) bourgeoisie (industrialists and financiers) and the “petite” (small or “petty”) bourgeoisie (shopkeepers, self-employed artisans, lawyers).
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1 The term bourgeois arose in medieval France, where it denoted an inhabitant of a walled town. Its overtones became important in the 18th century, when the middle class of professionals, manufacturers, and their literary and political allies began to demand an influence in politics consistent with their economic status.
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Marxism postulates a fundamental conflict between the interests of the bourgeoisie and those of the propertyless workers, the proletariat. Note: “Bourgeois” may also refer to mediocre taste or to the flashy display of wealth by the nouveau riche.
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1 The term bourgeois arose in medieval France, where it denoted an inhabitant of a walled town. 2  In Marxist theory, the bourgeoisie plays a heroic role by revolutionizing industry and modernizing society.
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bourgeoisie. 1  the bourgeois class. ( 2 in Marxist theory) the class that, in contrast to the proletariat or wage-earning class, is primarily concerned with property values.
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Bourgeoisie: Bourgeoisie, the social order that is dominated by the so-called middle class. The term connotes philistinism, materialism, and a striving for “respectability,” all of which were ridiculed by notable writers over the years.
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1707, body of freemen in a French town; the French middle class, from French bourgeois, from Old French burgeis, borjois (12c.) town dweller (as distinct from peasant), from borc town, village, from Frankish *burg city (see borough). Communist use for the capitalist class generally attested from 1886.
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development in. 1  Cape Town (in Cape Town: History) 2  France (in France: The causes of the French Revolution) 3  Latin Kingdoms (in Crusades: The military orders) 4  monarchic Europe (in history of Europe: The bourgeoisie) 5  Ukraine (in Ukraine: Social changes)
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Bourgeoisie, the social order that is dominated by the so-called middle class. In social and political theory, the notion of the bourgeoisie was largely a construct of Karl Marx (1818–83) and of those who were influenced by him.
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In Marxist philosophy the bourgeoisie is the social class that came to own the means of production during modern industrialization and whose societal concerns are the value of property and the preservation of capital, to ensure the perpetuation of their economic supremacy in society.
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“Bourgeois” may also refer to mediocre taste or to the flashy display of wealth by the nouveau riche.