embourgeoisement
noun
em·bour·geoise·ment
em-ˈbu̇rzh-ˌwäz-mənt 
äm-;
äⁿ-bu̇rzh-wäz-ˈmäⁿ
: a shift to bourgeois values and practices
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Plenty of moviegoers adored the clocks, but some people began to complain about the movie’s embourgeoisement, or Disneyfication, to use a word from the following decade.
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Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
For long, sociologists had debated the embourgeoisement of the working-class in the West—never a very happy term for the processes at issue.
—Jeet Heer, New Republic, 8 July 2017
Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
For long, sociologists had debated the embourgeoisement of the working-class in the West—never a very happy term for the processes at issue.
—Jeet Heer, New Republic, 8 July 2017
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“Embourgeoisement.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/embourgeoisement. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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