 An upscale, well-kept California home, exterting an image of success and respectability. The term bourgeois is a social label applied to an individual who seen as typical of the middle classes, both upper and lower, valuing materialism and being respectable.[1] Exerting 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 bohemian or radical tendencies, bourgeois life-styles tend to more traditional, centered around consumerism and activities deemed respectable. The term may be used with negative connotations, emphasizing the conspicuous consumption patterns, materialism and status obsession of a bourgeois mind-set. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1200x692, 1046 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Salinas, California Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to...
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A monument to the working and supporting classes along Market Street in the heart of San Franciscos Financial District, home to tens-of-thousands of professional and managerial middle class workers each day. ...
It has been suggested that affluenza and anti-consumerism be merged into this article or section. ...
Conspicuous consumption is a term introduced by the American economist Thorstein Veblen, in The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899). ...
In philosophy, materialism is that form of physicalism which holds that the only thing that can truly be said to exist is matter; that fundamentally, all things are composed of material and all phenomena are the result of material interactions. ...
Middle class values Sociologists such Paula LeMasters have identified rater progressive values such as respect for non-conformity, self-direction, autonomy, gender equality and openess to innovation as middle class values in child-raising.[2][3] Many values indentified 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 succeding in middle class occupations.[2]
See also A monument to the working and supporting classes along Market Street in the heart of San Franciscos Financial District, home to tens-of-thousands of professional and managerial middle class workers each day. ...
The middle class (or middle classes) comprises a social group once defined by exception as an intermediate social class between the nobility and the peasantry. ...
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References - ^ (2002) The American Heritage College Dictionary. New York, NY: Houhton Mifflin. 0-618-09848-8.
- ^ a b Gilbert, Dennis (1998). The American Class Structure. New York: Wadsworth Publishing. 0-534-50520-1.
- ^ Williams, Brian; Stacey C. Sawyer, Carl M. Wahlstrom (2005). Marriages, Families & Intimate Relationships. Boston, MA: Pearson. 0-205-36674-0.
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