Concept in Definition ABC

For the Sociology, the bourgeoisie is a social class characterized by having its own means of production and thanks to this it will establish a relationship of exploitation with the proletariat or social group worker from whom he will buy his labor power, since he does not have his own means of production. This relationship that both social classes maintain by dint of the power that one exercises over the other, is what allows the bourgeoisie to accumulate capital..

In the late Middle Ages, this term of French origin It began to be used to designate those urban inhabitants who carried out the first commercial exchange activities, such as merchants and artisans. Then, already in full Renaissance, the term began to be used to refer to the merchants who during this time reached a very important apogee that led them to reap incalculable riches as a result of the businesses they carried finished. This group marked the birth of a new social class, since it displayed new characteristics that the classes that predominated at that time did not have..

Because on the one hand, the bourgeoisie did not have the endorsement of noble titles as it did with the aristocracy that it was the most powerful class up to that moment and it did not present the subjugation of rights and subjugation that serfdom had to suffer. The bourgeoisie, basically, had become such by having developed a trade which they exploited to support themselves and enrich themselves or by making use of the exchange mercantile and loan.

This economic advance of the bourgeoisie undoubtedly caused a unprecedented change and that ended up modifying the established and prevailing order until that moment, that is, the aristocracy began to lose its power as As a consequence of the economic growth of the bourgeoisie, it no longer mattered if there were twenty titles of nobility, power had changed hands... and of course, the Political terrain was the second area that the bourgeoisie managed to dominate and the monarchies began to become more and more isolated, alone and inevitably they left scene.

Meanwhile, it will be thanks to the French Revolution that the bourgeoisie will end up establishing itself as the dominant social class, promoting important political changes such as the establishment of the democracy Parliament as a new form of government and will also be key for the industrial, agrarian and commercial revolutions to achieve the success they were able to achieve.