Bourgeoisie

thumb|La sortie du bourgeois, painted by Jean Béraud (1889) The bourgeoisie are a class of business owners, merchants and wealthy people, in general, which emerged in the Late Middle Ages, originally as a "middle class" between the peasantry and aristocracy. They are traditionally contrasted with the proletariat by their wealth, political power, and education, as well as their access to and control of cultural, social, and financial capital.

1972 film by Luis Buñuel

social class

comédie-ballet by Molière

Marxist historiographical term

group in a society, a class

Sri Lankan ethnic group

19th century German portrait collection

ethical code associated with Prussian society

Maoist term for people or groups within socialist revolutionary circles who would attempt to return to capitalism

nationalism of the ruling class under capitalism

Five form of tragedy and comedy

periodical literature, 1844-1944

polemic term for the ruling class of Soviet-type states

thumb|The class defined itself more on the basis of education than material possessions and thus great emphasis was laid upon the education of children.

watershed election in the UK

political ideology

subculture in Western cultures

term in Communist Chinese political ideology

Lumpenbourgeoisie is a term used in colonial sociology to describe members of the middle class and upper class (merchants, lawyers, industrialists, etc.) who have little collective self-awareness or economic base and who support the colonial masters. It is often attributed to Andre Gunder Frank in 1972, although the term is already present in several texts by Lukács (1943), Koestler (1945), C. Wright Mills (1951) and also in Paul Baran's The Political Economy of Growth (1957). Nonetheless, the term was popularized by Frank's book Lumpenbourgeoisie and Lumpendevelopment: Dependency, Class and P

coats of arms of non-nobles

political party type

thumb|Kruispoort, one of the four remaining gates of Bruges, Belgium

medieval, early modern European title of a citizen of a town, and a social class from which city officials could be drawn