释义 |
‖ embourgeoisement|ɑ̃burʒwazmɑ̃| [Fr.: see prec.] = bourgeoisification; adoption (esp. by the proletariat) of middle-class attitudes or life-style.
1937F. Borkenau Spanish Cockpit i. 35 It could not have succeeded had the Spanish proletariat ever undergone that process of ‘embourgeoisement’ which is characteristic of the industrial proletariat all over the world. 1940E. F. M. Durbin Politics of Democratic Socialism ii. iv. 113 It is not possible..to trace out the detail of this embourgeoisement (to coin a horrible term) of the proletariat. 1959Guardian 6 Oct. 8/1 China started from so far back that it will be long before embourgeoisement sets in there too. 1970Daily Tel. 16 Dec. 12 Hence its [sc. the Labour party's] reluctance to welcome the embourgeoisement of the wage-earners into a house-owning, two-car, fashion-conscious, home-entertaining, overseas-holidaying middle class. 1980N. Abercrombie et al. Dominant Ideology Thesis iv. 106 The reciprocal embourgeoisement of the aristocracy is important too, since the landed groups seem to have accepted most of the economic thought and some of the political and social beliefs that made up the dominant bourgeois ideology. 1983E. Gellner Nations & Nationalism v. 60 So these offspring shared in the eventually growing prosperity and general embourgeoisement of the region. |