Petite bourgeoisie (pengucapan bahasa Prancis:[pətitbuʁʒwazi]), juga petty bourgeoisie (artinya borjuis kecil), adalah sebuah istilah Prancis (terkadang ejekan) yang merujuk kepada kelas sosial yang terdiri dari kaum petani semi-otonom dan pedagang skala kecil yang pendirian ideologi politik-ekonominya berkali-kali mengalami stabilitas sosioekonomi seperti halnya haute bourgeoisie (borjuis tingkat tinggi), yang merupakan pengidentifikasian diri dari kalangan petite bourgeoisie, dan meniru moralitas borjuis.[1]
Istilah tersebut adalah istilah politik-ekonomi, dan rujukan dari materialisme sejarah.
↑Habermas [1968] Technology and Science as Ideology quotation:
... Their socialization seems to have been achieved in subcultures freed from immediate economic compulsion, in which the traditions of bourgeois morality and their petit-bourgeois derivatives have lost their function.
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