and their immediate families that formed the social class of the medieval bourgeoisie. Entry into burgher status varied from country to country and city...

Look up Burgher or burgher in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Burgher may refer to: Burgher (social class), a medieval, early modern European title of...

elite, the Grand Burgher was a type of urban citizen and social order of highest rank. They existed as a formally defined upper social class, made up of affluent...

Burgher people, also known simply as Burghers, are a small Eurasian ethnic group in Sri Lanka descended from Portuguese, Dutch, British and other Europeans...

Burgher arms or bourgeois arms are coats of arms borne by persons of the burgher social class of Europe since the Middle Ages (usually called bourgeois...

A social class or social stratum is a grouping of people into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most common being the working class, middle...

The modern social structure of France is complex, but generally similar to that of other European countries. Traditional social classes still have some...

Upper class in modern societies is the social class composed of people who hold the highest social status, usually are the wealthiest members of class society...

The Dutch Burghers are an ethnic group in Sri Lanka, of mixed Dutch, Portuguese Burgher and Sri Lankan descent. However, they are a different community...

Hamburg merchant and Grand Burgher Auguste Jauch (1822–1902), Hamburg benefactor to the poor Carl Jauch (1828–1888), Grand Burgher, Lord of Wellingsbüttel...

middle class is the social group constituted by higher status members of the middle class. This is in contrast to the term lower middle class, which is...

in the medieval and early modern period to designate someone of the burgher class. It originally meant a freeman of a borough or burgh but later came...

the detriment of others. Privileged groups can be advantaged based on social class, wealth, education, caste, age, height, skin color, physical fitness...

the new, self-made, class.[citation needed] In the Dutch Republic the nobility sought this as an advantage over the merchant burghers of Amsterdam and a...

different legal system. In communist philosophy, the bourgeoisie is the social class that came to own the means of production during modern industrialization...

supporting systems of social stratification. The sociologist Max Weber outlined three central aspects of stratification in a society: class, status, and power...

particularly ancient city-states, giving rise to a civitas and the social class of the burgher or bourgeoisie. Since then states have expanded the status of...

established upper-class families (i.e. gentry, patriciate)" or "a person, family, or lineage possessing inherited wealth". It is a social class of the rich...

bourgeoisie). In some regions, notably Sweden and Russia, burghers (the urban merchant class) and rural commoners were split into separate estates, creating...

medieval patrician classes were once again formally defined groups of leading families. In the Holy Roman Empire, the Grand Burgher families had a similar...

with the burghers. Luther argued that work was the chief duty on earth; the duty of the peasants was farm labor and the duty of the ruling classes was upholding...

Social class in Sri Lanka is often described as casteless, though caste is still found on the island in both a symbolic and a practical sense. Caste is...

collectively known as the squirearchy), is a largely historical British social class of landowners who could live entirely from rental income, or at least...

Cultural capital Professional–managerial class Grand Burgher (German Großbürger) Habitus (sociology) Hanseaten (class) High culture Intelligentsia Mentifact...

"lumprais", is a Sri Lankan dish that was introduced by the country's Dutch Burgher population. Lamprais is an Anglicised derivative of the Dutch word lomprijst...

distinct class. Jørgen Haave defines the Norwegian patriciate as a broad collective term for the civil servants (embetsmenn) and the burghers in the cities...

demonstrated through not only their entry into the middle class, but also various advances through social movements such as civil rights and immigration policy...

Aristocracy (class) Ascribed status Baig Caste (social hierarchy of India) Debutante False titles of nobility Gentleman Gentry Grand Burgher (German: Großbürger)...

in the area of citizenship. Pay taxes to the city that one was a burgher of. Social duties had to be fulfilled. An example would be the need to be part...

workers, in the hope that this would help break down class hostility between workers and burghers. Songs in praise of labour and workers were played by...