bourgeois culture
Comfortable class values
Bourgeois culture refers to the values, tastes, and social norms associated with the middle class—particularly its emphasis on material comfort, respectability, and conventional success.
The term often carries a critical edge, suggesting conformity, philistinism, or excessive concern with status and possessions: He dismissed their bourgeois culture of lawn care and dinner parties.
In Marxist usage, it describes the dominant culture shaped by capitalist class interests.
- art patronageFinancial support for artists
- capitalismPrivate profit-based economy
- etiquetteRules of polite conduct
- meritocracyAdvancement through demonstrated ability
- nuclear familyParents plus their offspring
classical music · literary salons · consumerism · old money · homeownership · white picket fence · rationalism · property ownership · fine dining · dinner party · wine and cheese · secularism · humanism · financial security · philistinism · book club · individualism · respectability
bourgeois cultureworking-class culture
Shared customs of laborers
folk culture · street culture · high society · nobility · the masses
bourgeois cultureavant-garde
Innovative cultural pioneers
bohemianism · bohemian culture · anti-art · Dadaism · underground culture
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