embourgeoisement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɒmbɔːˈʒwazmɑ̃/
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Old Latin en
Latin in
Latin in-
Old French en-
French en-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *bʰérǵʰsder.?
Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʰ-der.?
Proto-Germanic *burgz
Frankish *burgbor.
Old French borgeis
Middle French bourgois
French bourgeois
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Middle French -er
French -er
French embourgeoiser
Latin -mentum
Old French -ment
Middle French -ment
French -ment
French embourgeoisementbor.
English embourgeoisement
Borrowed from French embourgeoisement.
Senses: glosses: The process of adopting or the condition of adopting the characteristics of the bourgeoisie; bourgeoisification; the process of becoming affluent.
examples: text: Although these reforms were, in some cases, ineffective even when implemented, and, in other instances, impossible to implement because they met with strong resistance from powerful interests unwilling to relinquish the authority they held, the reforms nonetheless focussed attention on and began the process of dealing with the problem of miswielded authority as a cause of embourgeoisement.
ref: 2015, John Bryan Starr, Continuing the Revolution: The Political Thought of Mao, page 305:
glosses: The proliferation in a society of values perceived as characteristic of the middle class, especially of materialism.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1972: American Sociological Association, Contemporary Sociology, pp44
text: Goldthorpe’s arguments and the ‘embourgeoisement thesis’ have spawned many research studies. Russell Lansbury investigated differences blue- and white-collar workers in social outlook.
ref: 1983, Russell Duncan Lansbury, Robert Spillane, Organisational Behaviour: The Australian Context, page 140:
text: 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.
ref: 1994, Marina Warner, “Magic zones”, in London Review of Books, XVI.23:
text: The upstart genre of the novel also marks a decisive embourgeoisement and feminization of culture.
ref: 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published 2004, page 282:
text: 2007: Lesley Thomas, The Observer: Before you sneer at Fergie…, Sunday the 30ᵗʰ of September
We mould our children stealthily, force-feeding them allegorical Japanese films from Studio Gibley when they may prefer Shrek; packing them off to toddler yoga when they’d like to be at ballet reinforcing gender stereotypes. As for academic aspirations, check out any ‘up-and-coming’ area of London and witness the parents responsible for the local embourgeoisement elbowing their way into the best state schools.
glosses: A shift to bourgeois values and practices.
Synonyms: bourgeoisification
gentrification
Related terms: upwardly mobile
upward mobility
gentrification