bourgeoisie vs bourgeois
Definitions
noun
- the social class between the lower and upper classes
Examples
At lunch, Monsieur Caïn and his wife, who epitomize the nouveau bourgeoisie, continue to berate their daughter for what they see as appalling manners and lack of respect.
The main axis of stratification in capitalist societies is the struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.
But it is not so clear that this weakening of states increases the possibility of the political independence or autonomy of oppressed nations within them, because the bourgeoisies of the weakened nation-states in question fight back.
Definitions
noun
- a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise
- a member of the middle class
adjective
- conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
- (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class
- belonging to the middle class
Examples
At lunch, Monsieur Caïn and his wife, who epitomize the nouveau bourgeoisie, continue to berate their daughter for what they see as appalling manners and lack of respect.
The main axis of stratification in capitalist societies is the struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.
But the bourgeois and the coalitionist press represented this movement as a pogromist, counter-revolutionary affair, and, at the same time, as a Bolshevist crusade, the immediate object of which was to seize the reins of Government by the use of armed force against the Central Executive Committee.
