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I never make a distinction between private life and politics - that's a petit bourgeois thing. How can you make a stand against Nazi Germany, or in Rwanda, when you live life by making that distinction?
Marcel Ophuls

Meaning of "petit bourgeois" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PETIT BOURGEOIS

petit bourgeois  [ˈpɛtɪ ˈbʊəʒwɑː] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PETIT BOURGEOIS

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WHAT DOES PETIT BOURGEOIS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

petit bourgeois

Petite bourgeoisie

Petite bourgeoisie, also petty bourgeoisie, is a French term referring to a social class comprising semi-autonomous peasantry and small-scale merchants whose politico-economic ideological stance is determined by reflecting that of a haute bourgeoisie, with which the petite bourgeoisie seeks to identify itself, and whose bourgeois morality it strives to imitate. The term is politico-economic, and references historical materialism. It originally denoted a sub-stratum of the middle classes in the 18th and early-19th centuries. In the mid-19th century, the pre-eminient theorist of socio-politico-economy, Karl Marx, and other Marxist theorists used the term petite bourgeoisie to identify the socio-economic stratum of the bourgeoisie that comprised small-scale capitalists such as shop-keepers and workers who manage the production, distribution, and/or exchange of commodities and/or services owned by their bourgeois employers.

Definition of petit bourgeois in the English dictionary

The first definition of petit bourgeois in the dictionary is Also called: petite bourgeoisie, petty bourgeoisie. the section of the middle class with the lowest social status, generally composed of shopkeepers, lower clerical staff, etc. Other definition of petit bourgeois is a member of this stratum. Petit bourgeois is also of, relating to, or characteristic of the petit bourgeois, esp indicating a sense of self-righteousness and a high degree of conformity to established standards of behaviour.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PETIT BOURGEOIS


anti-bourgeois
ˌæntɪˈbʊəʒwɑː
antibourgeois
ˈæntɪˈbʊəʒwɑː
armoire
ɑːmˈwɑː
baignoire
ˈbenwɑː
boudoir
ˈbuːdwɑː
bourgeois
ˈbʊəʒwɑː
Chihuahua
tʃɪˈwɑːwɑː
devoir
ˈdevwɑː
devoirs
dəˈvwɑː
Dubois
djuːˈbwɑː
fatwa
ˈfætwɑː
Kwa
kwɑː
memoir
ˈmɛmwɑː
noir
nwɑː
Renoir
ˈrɛnwɑː
repertoire
ˈrɛpəˌtwɑː
reservoir
ˈrɛzəˌvwɑː
Seychellois
ˌseɪʃɛlˈwɑː
tous-les-mois
ˌtuːleɪˈmwɑː
wawa
ˈwɑːˌwɑː

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PETIT BOURGEOIS

petit
petit four
petit juror
petit jury
petit larcenist
petit larceny
petit mal
petit point
petite
petite bourgeoisie
petiteness
petitio
petitio principii
petition
petitionary
petitioner
petitionings
petitionist
petitory
petits bourgeois

WORDS THAT END LIKE PETIT BOURGEOIS

Artois
avoirdupois
barachois
bavarois
Beninois
Blois
chamois
coureurs de bois
de Valois
Illinois
Iroquois
Laois
Levallois
patois
petits bourgeois
petits pois
petty bourgeois
putois
Valois
Vaudois

Synonyms and antonyms of petit bourgeois in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «petit bourgeois» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PETIT BOURGEOIS

Find out the translation of petit bourgeois to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of petit bourgeois from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «petit bourgeois» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

小资
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pequeñoburgués
570 millions of speakers

English

petit bourgeois
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पेटिट पूंजीपति
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

البرجوازية الصغيرة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

мелкобуржуазная
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pequeno-burguesa
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ক্ষুদ্র বুর্জোয়া
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

petit-bourgeois
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Petit borjuasi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

kleinbürgerlichen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

小市民
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

쁘띠 부르주아
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Petit bourgeois
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

petit tư sản
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பெட்டி முதலாளித்துவம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पेटट बुर्जुआ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Küçük burjuvalar
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

piccolo borghese
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

petit bourgeois
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

дрібнобуржуазна
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

burghez
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μικροαστικών
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

petit bourgeois
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

småborgerliga
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

småborgerlig
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about petit bourgeois

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Marcel Ophuls
I never make a distinction between private life and politics - that's a petit bourgeois thing. How can you make a stand against Nazi Germany, or in Rwanda, when you live life by making that distinction?

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PETIT BOURGEOIS»

Discover the use of petit bourgeois in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to petit bourgeois and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste Pierre Bourdieu. efforts are concentrated, the petit bourgeois is simply obeying the system of constraints implied in his ambition. If he cannot increase his income, he must limit his expenditure, the ...
Pierre Bourdieu, 1984
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The Petite Bourgeoisie in Europe 1780-1914: Enterprise, ...
Primary schoolteaching and veterinary medicine recruited many petit—bourgeois children in the French countryside during the Second Empire, for these professions, unlike others, could be followed without moving to larger towns, '31 but ...
Geoffrey Crossick, Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, 2013
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The Social Structures of the Economy
Conclusion: The. Foundations. of. Petit-Bourgeois. Suffering. What we have addressed throughout this workis one of the major foundations on which the suffering of the petite bourgeoisie is built or, more exactly, on which are built all their little ...
Pierre Bourdieu, 2005
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Islamic Liberalism: A Critique of Development Ideologies
But if the bourgeoisie cannot produce a bourgeois state without political allies, and if reliance upon the apparatus of the state produces a petit bourgeois state which is authoritarian, chauvinist, and culturally reactionary, what alternative is there ...
Leonard Binder, 1988
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Communism Unwrapped: Consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe
of the category “petit-bourgeois” was by no means limited to this occasion; it became an emblematic term for people characterized by the “perverted” values linked to overconsumption?“ The term, in fact, was used in the first contributions to the ...
Paulina Bren, Mary Neuburger, 2012
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Culture and Power: The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu
52. This is the meaning intended when he speaks of the arbitrary character of dominant- class culture (see Bourdieu and Passeron 1977:8). 53. The most complete embodiment of the petit-bourgeois habitus is found in what Bourdieu ( 351, ...
David Swartz, 1997
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The European Way: European Societies During the Nineteenth ...
together with the new electoral system it obliged the Catholic Party to pursue the petit bourgeois vote with new vigour. Petit bourgeois consciousness and mobilisation, as in Belgium, is partly the product of the importance of the owners of small ...
Hartmut Kaelble, 2004
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Social Classes and Social Credit in Alberta
In addition, a key corollary of the general theory of the lower middle class, petit- bourgeois conservatism, lacks empirical substantiation for other times and locales, and so the general theory itself is brought into serious doubt. Another problem ...
Edward Bell, 1994
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Modern Chinese Literary Thought: Writings on Literature, ...
Today, writers who cling to an individualist, petit-bourgeois stand cannot truly serve the masses of revolutionary workers, peasants, and soldiers. Their interest is mainly focused on the small number of petit-bourgeois intellectuals. This is the  ...
Kirk A. Denton, 1996
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Contemporary Chinese Print Media: Cultivating Middle Class Taste
In an article entitled '“Petit Bourgeois” Sensibility and Middleclass Taste in Contemporary Literature', critic He Ping and colleagues (2005) point out that reversion to the 'petit-bourgeois' in the public discourse on China's post-reform social ...
Zheng Yi, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PETIT BOURGEOIS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term petit bourgeois is used in the context of the following news items.
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Literary awards and Joan London's The Golden Age
They, in their turn, are also forced to change – Ida to accept that her audience will now be “The émigrés, the petit bourgeois, the nouveau riche”, ... «The Conversation AU, Jul 15»
2
Record Label Charges Women Less to Offset Gender Pay Gap
“We're just tired of record labels being these petit bourgeois institutions that don't really have much impact on their communities,” Lyman told ... «Diffuser.fm, Jul 15»
3
“Radically Feminist and Willfully Obstinate” Record Label Instates a …
Label co-owner Brett Lyman said to NPR that he's “tired of record labels being these petit bourgeois institutions that don't really have much ... «Flavorwire, Jul 15»
4
Meet The Record Label Charging Women Less Due To Wage …
“We're just tired of record labels being these petit bourgeois institutions that don't really have much impact on their communities. Most just seem ... «Tone Deaf, Jul 15»
5
Portland Record Label Offers Women a Pay-Gap Discount
A bit of both; we're just tired of record labels being these petit bourgeois institutions that don't really have much impact on their communities. «KQED, Jul 15»
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Tsipras enhanced his power and menace with referendum result
Social democracy in Europe is house-trained petit bourgeois liberalism, served with sanctimonious concern for causes that have limited ... «Irish Examiner, Jul 15»
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Metaphor map charts the images that structure our thinking
We describe social networks in terms of weaving and spinning; something is defined as “tweedy” if it is rustic, or “chintzy” if petit bourgeois. «The Guardian, Jun 15»
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Leftist politics have doomed Greece to collapse
It is always those in the middle -- and especially what Marxist intellectuals call the petit bourgeois, the aspiring, hard-working workers and ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
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Americans Buy Into Marxist Family Planning
... child-parent separation unnatural and unwelcome were unprogressive cretins “soaked in petit bourgeois and 'intelligentsia-like' prejudices. «The Federalist, Jun 15»
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Racism as an Element of Fascism
In doing so, they are setting the tone and terms of debate. And the petit bourgeois radical left will fall in line, focus on the racism aspect and run ... «CounterPunch, Jun 15»

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