Before revision: 400px|The Peasant Wedding, a 16th-century painting that depicts what would later be called the small bourgeoisie Petite bourgeoisie (, literally 'small bourgeoisie'; also anglicised as petty bourgeoisie) is a French term that refers to a social class composed of semi-autonomous peasants and small-scale merchants whose politico-economic ideological stance in times of socioeconomic stability is determined by reflecting that of a haute bourgeoisie ( 'high ' bourgeoisie ) with which the petite bourgeoisie seeks to identify itself and whose bourgeois morality it strives to imitate.
After revision: 400px|The Peasant Wedding, a 16th-century painting that depicts what would later be called the small bourgeoisie Petite bourgeoisie (, literally 'small bourgeoisie'; also anglicised as petty bourgeoisie) is a French term that refers to a social class composed of semi-autonomous peasants and small-scale merchants whose politico-economic ideological stance in times of stability is reflective of the haute bourgeoisie ( high bourgeoisie or upper class ) with which the petite bourgeoisie seeks to identify itself and whose bourgeois morality it strives to imitate.