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embourgeoisement

[ em-boor-zhwahz-muhnt, -mahnt, ahm-; French ahn-boor-zhwaz-mahn ]

noun

  1. the acquisition or adoption of middle-class values and manners.


embourgeoisement

/ ɑ̃burʒwazmɑ̃ /

noun

  1. the process of becoming middle-class; the assimilation into the middle class of traditionally working-class people
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of embourgeoisement1

< French, equivalent to s’embourgeois ( er ) to become bourgeois ( em- 1, bourgeois 1 ) + -ment -ment
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Word History and Origins

Origin of embourgeoisement1

from French, from en- 1+ bourgeois 1
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Example Sentences

“We may as well recognize,” writes Said, in describing why Europe needed this idea of the “licentious” East, “that for 19th-century Europe, with its increasing embourgeoisement, sex had been institutionalized to a very considerable degree. On the one hand, there was no such thing as ‘free’ sex, and on the other, sex in society entailed a web of legal, moral, even political and economic obligations of a detailed and certainly encumbering sort.”

Avedon enjoyed his rapid embourgeoisement.

In the cards’ forced festivity, their embourgeoisement of celebration, freedom rang.

In later years, Mr. Stone shifted into what he described as “embourgeoisement.”

In 1963, though, the sociologists John H. Goldthorpe and David Lockwood disputed this widely held “embourgeoisement thesis,” arguing that the erosion of social class had not been as great as believed.

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