bourgeois values

collocation in English

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bourgeois
adjective
uk
/ˈbɔːʒ.wɑː/us
/ˈbʊrʒ.wɑː/
belonging to or typical of the middle class (= a social group between the rich and the poor) especially in supporting existing customs and values, or in having a strong interest in money ...
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value
noun
uk
/ˈvæl.juː/us
/ˈvæl.juː/
the amount of money that can be received ...
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(Definition ofbourgeoisandvaluefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Moreover, it is difficult to resist the rewards of allowing oneself to be integrated into thebourgeoisvaluesystem via our education system.
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The imposition of bourgeois values, traditionally associated with this sort of activity, and ambitions to instil habits of religious observance, had been modified.
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Scientists and engineers could be useful for this or that technical task, but their professional training infected them with irredeemably bourgeois values, and made them potential betrayers.
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That was before training colleges persuaded teachers to stop inflicting bourgeois values on working class children.
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The term was often used as one of disapprobation, the behavior of a person in the demimonde being contrary to more traditional or bourgeois values.
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To counter the notion that bourgeois values represented natural or normal values for society, the working class needed to develop a culture of its own.
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The promotion of bourgeois values contrasted with the decline of aristocratic norms.
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His ethics are those of bourgeois values and labor.
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Capitalist law was a tool of bourgeois domination and a reflection of bourgeois values.
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He establishes a constructed reader, a fictional personification of the bourgeois values of the late 1940s, against which to measure his deviance from the norms of society.
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Certainly, his work demonstrates a strongly subversive attitude towards bourgeois values, expressed above all by a discordant use of language interspersed with dialect, academic and technical jargon and dirty talk.
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