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bourgeoisie
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[ noun ] (sociology) the social class between the lower and upper classes
Synonyms Used in print (Morton A. Kaplan and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach,...)To free the factors of production was a major objective of the rising bourgeoisie , and this objective required that governmental authority - administrative_officials and judges - be limited as precisely and explicitly as possible ; that old customs which inhibited trade be abrogated ; that business be free from governmental supervision and notions of morality which might clog the automatic adjustments of the free market ; that obligations of status that were inconsistent with the new politics and the new economics be done away with . Related terms |
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