Is there a global super‐bourgeoisie

Bibliographic Data

ID12911949
AuthorsB Cousin (0000-0002-1992-4604, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, corresponding author), Chauvin (0000-0003-1203-2563, University of Lausanne)
Year2021
Volume15
Issue6
Publication date2021-04-09
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociology Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1751-9020 • E-ISSN: 1751-9020
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/soc4.12883
OpenAlexW3156993908
LanguageEN
Citations received26
References cited131

In recent decades, accelerating processes of globalization and an increase in economic inequality in most of the world's countries have raised the question of the emergence of a new bourgeoisie integrated at the global level, sometimes described as a global super‐bourgeoisie. This group would be distinguished by its unequaled level of wealth and global interconnectedness, its transnational ubiquity and concentration in the planet's major global cities, its specific culture, consumption habits, sites of sociability and shared references, and even by class consciousness and capacity to act collectively. This article successively discusses how the social sciences have examined these various dimensions of the question and begun to provide systematic empirical answers

Bourgeoisie · Consciousness · Consumption (sociology · Development economics · Economic geography · Economics · Globalization · Inequality · Petite bourgeoisie · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics