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Bourgeois is the adjectival form of the French bourgeoisie , a loosely defined designated group characterized by private wealth, an upper class social status, and its related culture.
The bourgeoisie is a polysemous French term that can mean:
- Petite bourgeoisie
- Bourgeois Alternative, Danish political party
- Bourgeois liberalism
- Bourgeois nationalism
- Bourgeois pseudoscience
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 in times of socioeconomic stability is determined by reflecting that of a haute ("high") bourgeoisie, with which the petite bourgeoisie seeks to identify itself and whose bourgeois morality it strives to imitate.
In Marxism, bourgeois nationalism is the practice by the ruling classes of deliberately dividing people by nationality, race, ethnicity, or religion, so as to distract them from initiating class warfare. It is seen as a divide and conquer strategy used by the ruling classes to prevent the working class from uniting against them.
Bourgeois pseudoscience was a term of condemnation in the Soviet Union for certain scientific disciplines that were deemed unacceptable from an ideological point of view.
Bourgeois may also refer to:
- Bourgeois (surname)
- bourgeois (typography), the name of the type size between brevier and long primer
- H. L. Bourgeois High School, Gray, Louisiana, United States
- Bourgeois is a synonym for these wine grapes:
- Elbling, in the Mosel region
- Gouais blanc, historic white grape
Gouais blanc or Weißer Heunisch is a white grape variety that is seldom grown today but is important as the ancestor of many traditional French and German grape varieties. The name Gouais derives from the old French adjective ‘gou’, a term of derision befitting its traditional status as the grape of the peasants. Likewise, the German name Weißer Heunisch labels it as one the lesser, Hunnic grapes.
- Bourgeois fish, a common name for Lutjanus sebae , a snapper from the Indo-West Pacific
Bourgeois is a French surname.
H. L. Bourgeois High School is a public high school in Gray, Louisiana and one of four traditional high schools in the Terrebonne Parish School District. The school is named after Henry Louis Bourgeois, an educator who served as superintendent of the school district from 1914 to 1955. Built in response to a rising population at Terrebonne High School, the school opened in 1973 and was first accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools in 1975. For its first 40 years, HLB primarily served students in grades 10-12. For the 2013-2014 school year, an all-new Freshman Center was completed to serve ninth-grade students. Prior to this, freshman students were housed at nearby Evergreen Junior High School.
Not to be confused with Elbing, a city in Poland.
