bourgeois values
Suburban respectability standards
Bourgeois values are the attitudes and priorities associated with the middle class: respectability, material comfort, conventional morality, hard work, and social conformity.
The phrase usually carries a critical edge, implying shallow materialism or excessive concern with appearances: She rejected her parents' bourgeois values for a life in the arts.
In Marxist thought, bourgeois values serve to maintain capitalist social order.
- savingsAccumulated money kept
- conformityAdherence to norms
- upward mobilityRising social or economic status
- refinementElegance of manner
- entrepreneurshipCreating and managing ventures
Protestant work ethic · respectability · financial security · diligence · education · nuclear family · mediocrity · consumerism · philistine · status anxiety · materialism · cultural capital · civic engagement · decorum · good manners · moderation · work ethic · gender roles
- Biedermeiersecretaire, secretary desk, settee, armchair, commode
- bourgeois fictionsocial realism, class distinctions, middle class, bildungsroman, Thomas Mann
- modernismPicasso, Matisse, Duchamp, Braque, Kandinsky
- Victorian fictionJane Eyre, gothic fiction, Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist
- philistinismanti-intellectualism, boorishness, tastelessness, uncouthness
bourgeois valuessocialist values
Beliefs prioritizing communal welfare
class consciousness · communist ideals · nobility · noblesse oblige
bourgeois valuespunk ethos
Self-reliant countercultural stance
artistic rebellion · bohemianism · nonconformism · radical chic · transgression
bourgeois valuesasceticism
Severe self-denial practice
spiritual values · communal living · renunciation · simple living · anti-materialism