12 sentences with 'bourgeoisie'
Example sentences and phrases with the word bourgeoisie and other words derived from it.
• « Among the other causes of the Enlightenment, perhaps the most important was the significant growth of the literate urban classes, most notably what was called in France the bourgeoisie: the mercantile middle class. »
• « The bourgeoisie became a very important class in terms of the economies of the kingdoms of Europe, especially in the west, but it did not "fit" into the society of the orders. »
• « While wealthy members of the bourgeoisie mingled with and sometimes married into the nobility, others considered themselves distinct, celebrating a life of productive work and serious education over what they saw as the excesses of the aristocracy. »
• « The most vulnerable group were the so-called "petty bourgeoisie", shop owners and old-style artisans, whose economic life was precarious and who lived in constant fear of losing everything and being forced to join the working class. »
• « Class collaboration was not a possibility, as the richer bourgeoisie and the nobility recognised socialism as their common enemy. »
• « The world had entered a new phase after the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution, however, one that (for Marx) simplified that continuous struggle of many competing classes to just two: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. »
• « The bourgeoisie were the rising middle classes, the factory and business owners, the bankers and all those with direct control over industrial production. The proletariat was the industrial working class. »
• « The cultural era of this period is known as 'Victorianism', the culture of the dominant bourgeoisie in the second half of the 19th century. »
• « It was a time when the bourgeoisie, increasingly mixed with the old nobility, came to assert a confident vision of a single European culture that they believed should dominate the world. »
• « In turn, the Victorian bourgeoisie accused the working class of inherent weakness and vileness. »
• « Modernism, socially, was a reaction against the complacency of the bourgeoisie, its willingness to wage wars for empire and notions of nationalism. »