Bourgeois

"The bourgeois ... Not so long ago, this notion seemed indispensable to social analysis; these days, one might go years without hearing it mentioned. Capitalism is more powerful than ever, but its human embodiment seems to have vanished. ''I am a member of the bourgeois class, feel myself to be such, and have been brought up on its opinions and ideals,'' wrote Max Weber, in 1895. Who could repeat ...