Embourgeoisement

Quick meaning: Embourgeoisement is a noun meaning The proliferation in a society of values perceived as characteristic of the middle class, especially of materialism.

Meaning

The proliferation in a society of values perceived as characteristic of the middle class, especially of materialism.

More Meanings

1. A shift to bourgeois values and practices.
2. The process of adopting or the condition of adopting the characteristics of the bourgeoisie; bourgeoisification; the process of becoming affluent.

Example Sentences

The upstart genre of the novel also marks a decisive embourgeoisement and feminization of culture.

Goldthorpe’s arguments and the ‘embourgeoisement thesis’ have spawned many research studies. Russell Lansbury investigated differences blue- and white-collar workers in social outlook.

Yet, in a fashion similar to the “Affluent Worker”, MacKenzie constructs a theory of embourgeoisement that is far too narrow historically and consequently, sociologically unsatisfactory.

It’s significant that Pasolini turned to the Orient to conjure his rather forced vision of primitive sanity, and that he expressed his resistance to Western embourgeoisement through a honeyed, lyrical and comic picture of nomad culture and its pursuit of joyous, uncomplicated, promiscuous contact.

Synonyms for embourgeoisement

Depending on context, synonyms include bourgeoisification, gentrification.

Antonyms for embourgeoisement

Common opposites include proletarianization.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bourgeoisification, bourgeoisness, burghership, affluentness, bougieness, upmarketness.

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