David Marquand, one of the central themes of the golden age was 'embourgeoisement': the spread to the working class of the job security, career ladders and lifestyles which had formerly been the prerogatives of the middle class.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference

We must therefore accept with all reserve the statements of those anarchizing socialists and bourgeois radicals who accuse the Socialist Party of "embourgeoisement" because it contains a certain number of small manufacturers and small traders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy] Reference

Curiously, we get a detour into the English word “gentrification,” “which can be translated as embourgeoisement”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » 2004 » May] Reference

But mom-and-pop retailers could also become a political vanguard, jumpstarting the embourgeoisement of the Chinese population.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Next Chinese Economy] Reference

Sadly, it has become much less black and Maghrehbian in the past 10 years as it has succumbed to the inner city embourgeoisement that has taken its absolute distinctiveness away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Charles Murray Sees Nonwhite People] Reference

The history of Italian Jews in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is essentially a story of social integration and embourgeoisement, with the exception of the years of Fascism, the racial laws (1938) and World War II.    From Wordnik.com.  [Italy, Modern.] Reference

The privatisation and embourgeoisement of customs surrounding death proceeded inexorably towards an English speaking world marked by Victorian forests of of obelisks, stone crosses and angels marking affectionate remembrance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Common Prayer, part 4: In the midst of life] Reference

The consequence is that in many of the ex-workers this embourgeoisement is very rapidly effected.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy] Reference

We have already discussed the drastic measures that have been proposed to prevent the embourgeoisement of the leaders of proletarian origin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy] Reference

The embourgeoisement of certain strata of the working-class party has other factors in addition to the influence of the bureaucratic apparatus of the Socialist Party, the trade unions, and the cooperative societies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy] Reference

The embourgeoisement of the party is an unquestionable fact, but its causes will be found in a process very different from the entry into the organizations of the fighting proletariat of a few hundred members of the middle class.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy] Reference

This embourgeoisement is the outcome of three very different orders of phenomena: (1) the adhesion of petty bourgeois to the proletarian parties; (2) labour organization as the creator of new petty bourgeois strata; (3) capitalist defense as the creator of new petty bourgeois strata.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy] Reference

The truth is, however, that an objective and searching discussion of the question leads us to recognize the wrongheadedness at once of those who are content flatly to deny the embourgeoisement of the Socialist Party and also of those who are content to sing the praises of the great socialist petty bourgeois party.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy] Reference

THE social changes which organization produces among the proletarian elements, and the alterations which are effected in the proletarian movement through the influx of those new influences which the organization attracts within its orbit, may be summed up in the comprehensive customary term of the embourgeoisement of working-class parties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy] Reference

Ben Turnstall and Ana Lopez reported from the 'Friends of Brixton Market' (FBM) campaign in London. xxix They related how the Afro-Carribean institution is under threat from Tesco expansionism and the typical commodification and embourgeoisement of street markets we've seen elsewhere (an expensive 'ethnic borough market' on the South Bank has been mooted as a model for Brixton Market).    From Wordnik.com.  [Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net - CULTURE AND POLITICS AFTER THE NET] Reference