bourgeois values
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7.1
- noun
- /ˈbʊrʒwɑːˌvæl.juz/
:
valores burgueses
- Do you share my bourgeois values, my belief in patriotism and hard work, self-discipline, deferred gratification?
Do you share my bourgeois values, my belief in patriotism and hard work, self-discipline, deferred gratification?
- Do you share my bourgeois values, my belief in patriotism and hard work, self-discipline, deferred gratification?
Examples
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He then discusses the nature of bourgeois values and indicates some of the consequences of the war against them.
Academic text (1995) -
And China must try to control "social pollution" growing from Taiwan's democratic politics, business practices, and bourgeois values.
Academic text (2002) -
Bourgeois values also contributed to the creation as well as to the love of great art.
Academic text (1995) -
Her growing awareness of her sexuality began to interfere with the bourgeois values implicit in her medical studies.
Academic text (2012) -
In these ways, Cleland consistently tips his hand against Fanny and against bourgeois values.
Academic text (1994) -
This liberalism implied tolerating alternative beliefs and trying to see some merit in the critique of bourgeois values.
Academic text (1995) -
Capitalism is so materially productive that it creates and supports a class of intellectuals who reject the bourgeois values essential to the operation of the economic system.
Academic text (1991) -
Its acceptance is in response to the petty bourgeois values deeply rooted in the people and systematically publicized by the erosion of an ideological superstructure.
Academic text (2017) -
To conclude from the standpoint of ideology, the ending to Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities reaffirms the supremacy of bourgeois values: class structure, gender roles, and absolute moral values.
Academic text (1994) -
Many people criticize the emphasis on bourgeois values that prioritize wealth and social status over community engagement.
Antonyms
How Conventional
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is directly compositional: 'bourgeois' specifies a social class/attitude and 'values' denotes beliefs, so together they mean the beliefs associated with the middle class. This relation is predictable and mirrors equivalent constructions in many languages (e.g. Spanish 'valores burgueses'), so a B1 learner who knows both words should be able to infer the meaning.
Etymology
The phrase bourgeois values comes from the French word bourgeois, which once meant a town person who owned a shop or house and cared most about property, order and respect. That's why today bourgeois values describes middle-class beliefs like 'material success', 'respectability' and 'conventional life'.