trưởng giả hóa

Definition

1. Verb:
   • To become bourgeois / to adopt bourgeois characteristics: The process by which an individual, group, or aspect of society adopts the values, lifestyle, attitudes, or economic behaviors typical of the middle class (bourgeoisie). It often implies a shift towards conservatism, materialism, and conventional social norms.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Sau khi giàu lên, tư tưởng của ông ấy dần trưởng giả hóa. (After becoming wealthy, his thinking gradually became bourgeois.)
  • Một bộ phận nghệ thuật đang có nguy cơ bị trưởng giả hóa. (A segment of the arts is at risk of becoming bourgeois.)

Advanced Usage

• This term often carries a critical or sociological nuance, describing a perceived loss of original, often more radical or proletarian, values in favor of middle-class comfort and conformity.

Variants and Related Words

• Trưởng giả (n): bourgeois, a member of the middle class characterized by conventional attitudes and materialistic values.
  • Lối sống của tầng lớp trưởng giả. (The lifestyle of the bourgeois class.)

Synonyms

• To become middle-class: to adopt the socio-economic status and habits of the middle class.
• To embourgeois (a direct loan translation): a less common English equivalent for the specific process.

Related Concepts

• Sự trưởng giả hóa (n): embourgeoisement, the noun form describing the process or state of becoming bourgeois.
  • Sự trưởng giả hóa của một số đảng viên. (The embourgeoisement of some party members.)