The self-image of the bourgoise

Running heading : The self-image of the bourgeois

The self-image of the bourgeois

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16th August , 2010

`Bourgeois ' was a term used to refer to the middle class . It was characterizing the social , cultural and political feelings of the whole society . The nineteenth century was the time when the bourgeois class was the most dominant in the society .There were some of the ideas which were used to define this group of individuals which ended up being regarded as the self image of the bourgeois . First they were the class that

fought for the rights of the citizens in the nineteenth century when the aristocrats used to control the society they were the owners of large businesses and were moving towards the upper class kind of lifestyle . They placed great value on their image more than anything else . They fought to hire as many servants as possible , since to them the more the number of servants the richer an individual is

The people of the middle class had a variety of occupations . In their group there were bankers , money lenders , manufacturing entrepreneurs surgeons , dentists , engineers , builders , chemists , accountants assessors , and directors of personal and public organization , producers tutors , nurses , and merchants

They also used a lot of money to purchase food for their own consumption as compared to other household things . They valued balanced meal which came mostly in the middle of the day . This meal was taken by all the family members in a gathering . They used to eat meat...