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embourgeoisement

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em·bour·geoise·ment  (m-brzhwäz-mnt, -mänt)
n.
Conversion to bourgeois values, loyalties, or tastes.
[French, from bourgeois, bourgeois; see bourgeois.]
embourgeoisement (French) [ɑ̃burʒwazˈmɑ̃]
n
(Sociology) the process of becoming middle class; the assimilation into the middle class of traditionally working-class people
[from French, from en-1 + bourgeois1]


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Traces of not only aging, but also embourgeoisement make themselves felt.
Sarah Lucas: Kunstverein Hamburg by Miller, John / Artforum International
There is no mention of, for example, the decline of the labor movement and the embourgeoisement of much of the former working class, the flow of population from the central cities and the Rust Belt to the suburbs and the Sun Belt, the increasing percentage of Americans owning their own homes, and the spread of mass higher education.
Trivializing American conservatism by Shapiro, Edward S. / Modern Age
37) Liberals such as Swietochowski and (to a lesser extent) Orzeszkowa tended to view the woman question in terms of the country's economic development, the embourgeoisement of urban artisans, and the creation of a modem "civil society.
The "woman question" in Russian Poland, 1900-1914 by Blobaum, Robert E. / Journal of Social History
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