The term bourgeois originated in medieval France, where it denoted an inhabitant of a walled town. Its overtones became important in the 18th century, when the middle class of professionals, manufacturers, and their literary and political allies began to demand an influence in politics consistent with their economic status. Marx was one of many thinkers who treated the French Revolution as a revolution of the bourgeois.
Source: Britannica
I was in an art gallery and so confused about the use of the term with respect to art contemporary to the French Revolution. So I looked it up lol
I notice it on my parents. Even though they largely grew up poor, my mom’s family is rural and little less well off, while my father’s family is lower middle class who owned a business in a small town. My mom is quite broad minded but she has a typical conservative mindset to just “just keep your head down. Do what you’re told and no questions asked”. Or worse, bury the head in the ground and pretend the problem doesn’t exist. Meanwhile, my dad is more on the left and more knowledgeable because he is a wide reader than my mom. He encouraged my siblings and I to pursue more varied interests and he voices more political thoughts than my mom. She has a more tunnel vision of life than my father, because struggle and work is what mom had known more. Whereas, my father probably had more time to think because some financial cushion enabled him to pursue other interest without being distracted by constant anxiety of poverty, which my mom had experienced more.