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The term bourgeois is a social label applied to an individual who is seen as typical of the middle classes
American middle class

File:A monument of working class.JPGThe American middle class is an Ambiguity defined social class in the United States. While the concept remains largely ambiguous in popular opinion and common language use, contemporary sociologists have put forward several, more or less congruent, theories on the American middle class....
, both upper and lower, valuing materialism
Economic materialism

Materialism refers to how a person or group chooses to spend their factors of production, particularly money and time. Literally, a materialist is a person for whom collecting material goods is an important priority....
 and being respectable. Exuding an image of success through consumption, personal behavior, speech and intellectual development are common attributes of a bourgeois personality. As opposed to a person with radical tendencies or one who exhibits bohemianism
Bohemianism

The term bohemian, of French origin, was first used in the English language in the nineteenth century to describe the untraditional lifestyles of marginalized and impoverished artists, writers, musicians, and actors in major European cities....
, the bourgeois lifestyle
Lifestyle

Lifestyle was originally coined by Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler in 1929. The current broader sense of the word dates from 1961.In sociology, a lifestyle is the way a person lives....
 tends to be more traditional, centered around consumerism
Consumerism

Consumerism is the equation of personal happiness with Consumption and the purchase of material possessions.The term is often associated with criticisms of consumption starting with Thorstein Veblen....
 and activities deemed respectable by the bourgeoisie.






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The term bourgeois is a social label applied to an individual who is seen as typical of the middle classes
American middle class

File:A monument of working class.JPGThe American middle class is an Ambiguity defined social class in the United States. While the concept remains largely ambiguous in popular opinion and common language use, contemporary sociologists have put forward several, more or less congruent, theories on the American middle class....
, both upper and lower, valuing materialism
Economic materialism

Materialism refers to how a person or group chooses to spend their factors of production, particularly money and time. Literally, a materialist is a person for whom collecting material goods is an important priority....
 and being respectable. Exuding an image of success through consumption, personal behavior, speech and intellectual development are common attributes of a bourgeois personality. As opposed to a person with radical tendencies or one who exhibits bohemianism
Bohemianism

The term bohemian, of French origin, was first used in the English language in the nineteenth century to describe the untraditional lifestyles of marginalized and impoverished artists, writers, musicians, and actors in major European cities....
, the bourgeois lifestyle
Lifestyle

Lifestyle was originally coined by Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler in 1929. The current broader sense of the word dates from 1961.In sociology, a lifestyle is the way a person lives....
 tends to be more traditional, centered around consumerism
Consumerism

Consumerism is the equation of personal happiness with Consumption and the purchase of material possessions.The term is often associated with criticisms of consumption starting with Thorstein Veblen....
 and activities deemed respectable by the bourgeoisie. The term may be used with negative connotations, emphasizing the conspicuous consumption
Conspicuous consumption

Conspicuous consumption is a term used to describe the lavish spending on goods and services acquired mainly for the purpose of displaying income or wealth....
 patterns, materialism
Materialism

The philosophy of materialism holds that the only thing that can be truly proven to existence is matter, and is considered a form of physicalism....
 and status obsession of a bourgeois mind-set.

Middle-class values

Sociologists such as Paula LeMasters have identified progressive values such as respect for non-conformity, self-direction, autonomy
Autonomy

Autonomy is the right to self-government. Autonomy is a concept found in moral, political, and bioethics philosophy. Within these contexts, it refers to the capacity of a Rationality individual to make an informed, un-coerced decision....
, gender equality
Gender equality

Gender equality is the goal of the social equality of the genders or the sexes, stemming from a belief in the injustice of myriad forms of gender inequality....
 and openness to innovation as middle class values in child-raising. Many values identified as belonging to the middle classes may be related to the needs of middle-class professions. Self-control, advanced expertise, as well as innovation are commonly important to succeeding in middle-class occupations.

See also

  • American middle class
    American middle class

    File:A monument of working class.JPGThe American middle class is an Ambiguity defined social class in the United States. While the concept remains largely ambiguous in popular opinion and common language use, contemporary sociologists have put forward several, more or less congruent, theories on the American middle class....
  • Dandyism
  • Middle class
    Middle class

    Middle class is the group of people in contemporary society who are between the working class and nobility. This socioeconomic class includes professionals, highly skilled workers, and lower and middle management....
  • Upper middle class
    Upper middle class

    The upper middle class is a sociological concept referring to the social group constituted by higher-status members of the middle class. This is in contrast to the term lower middle class used for the group at the other end of the middle class scale and the regular middle class....