Who is the bougeoiuse- sociology?

Question

Who is the bougeoiuse- sociology?

Answer 1

Bourgeoisie is a classification used in analysing human societies to describe a social class of people who are in the upper or merchant class, whose status or power comes from employment, education, and wealth as opposed to aristocratic origin.

Answer 2

Comes from Karl Marx (I think the Communist Manifesto and Das Capital) - he talks of two classes - the bougousie and the proletariat.

However - it isn't as simple as that, he writes about:

landowners/aristocracy

bougousie (middle class who control things but are not major owners)

the petit bougousie (lower middle class who supervise and have less influence)

the proletiariat - the workers

the lumpen proletiariat - working class who don't work and make no contribution

peasant - workers on the land

Answer 3

bourgeoisie was a classification created in the days of the industrial revolution when production was the back bone of a growing global economy.

Bourgeoisie is the class of people who were responsible for that production, either by means of owning or running production.

Answer 4

bourgeoisie are the people that control the means of production...............perhaps they own factories like GM

the proletariates would be the people who work at those factories

The way I remember: "The bourgeoisie are 'the Man' keeping everyone else down."

Answer 5

The ruling class.

The owners of the means of production.