(a.) Of or pertaining to the proletaries; belonging to the commonalty; hence, mean; vile; vulgar.
(n.) A proletary.
Example Sentences:
(1) Proletarianization (McKinlay and colleagues) and restratification theory (Freidson) are two prominent and competing predictions for the future of the medical profession.
(2) No one could tell us what proletarian architectural design was – and you were too afraid to ask."
(3) It gave the policy an aspirational flavour: reassuringly suburban rather than proletarian and urban.
(4) In recent years a substantial literature has emerged on the alleged deprofessionalization and proletarianization of physicians.
(5) And now the bank founded as the very embodiment of proletarian self-help and a different model of business ends up being run by hedge funds.
(6) In the room with me were Young, Elliot Roberts, the guy from Seattle (later replaced by the guy from Albuquerque, Crowe and Art, Young's proletarian dog).
(7) The very thought, I suspect, would have him quaking in his proletarian boots – and free airline socks.
(8) You could also detect its beginnings in some of the supposed social comment associated with Britpop - not least the snide songs about forlorn proletarian lives that were briefly the calling card of Blur's Damon Albarn, who affected a mewling "Essex" accent, but was in fact raised in one of that county's more upscale corners.
(9) He was startled to be rounded on in his early adulthood by the proletarian poet Jesse Tor, who denounced him as "irredeemably bourgeois".
(10) This development is viewed in the light of the orienting concepts of professionalization, proletarianization, and medical dominance (and gender analysis).
(11) The politicization of health services in Israel came about owing to the low placement of health on the social agenda, the proletarianization of physicians, and the hierarchical administrative culture.
(12) This showdown between Solidarity’s charismatic, proletarian leader and his urbane former adviser symbolised the breakdown of the alliances within Polish society that had made Solidarity possible.
(13) In a letter from 1870 that, with a few words changed, could have been written any time in the past few years, Karl Marx vividly described this dynamic: “Every industrial and commercial centre in England possesses a working class divided into two hostile camps, English proletarians and Irish proletarians.
(14) In their article, McKinlay and Arches have provided us with a very interesting and perceptive analysis of how it has become possible to proletarianize physicians.
(15) Although she was never untruthful about her own past, it was rather less proletarian than she would have liked for a party suspicious of middle class intellectuals.
(16) Like the red sun rising in the east, the unprecedented Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution is illuminating the land with its brilliant rays,” one editorial read.
(17) How a profession maintains its status is reflected in the ways a dominant paradigm (professional dominance) responds to challenges from alternative concepts (deprofessionalization, proletarianization).
(18) Apparently, he struggled to sound quite as proletarian as required, though he was said to be "making hand gestures and swaggering from side to side as he walked across the parade square".
(19) There is a cluster of upper-middle signifiers all in a row: “Greenbelt, nimby, green wellies, Aga, Cotswolds, M4, Eton”, and another clump of something a bit more proletarian: “boozer, red top, Blighty, allotments, Blackpool”.
(20) Looking for intersexual differences in size and lineal and craniofacial proportionality, assumed to be secondary to genetic induction, non-distorted by environmental factors, we studied 200 newborns from families who were residents in proletarian zones, parents with very similar education and employment (qualified workers).
Proletariat
Definition:
(n.) The indigent class in the State; the body of proletarians.
Example Sentences:
(1) Then his daughter kept things ticking over by retweeting a comment on his critics: "Hello to the bunch of wankers that come from the proletariat and only criticize those they envy".
(2) Source: Adalah General Moshe Dayan on the Bedouin in 1963: "We should transform the Bedouins into an urban proletariat – in industry, services, construction and agriculture.
(3) Rather than, say, advocating the dictatorship of the proletariat in the transitional period, all it takes is to suggest that forcing people out of their homes because they have a spare room is cruel and unjust.
(4) For four decades, the Farc, the army and paramilitaries – claiming respectively to represent the peasantry and proletariat, the state and the landowning classes – fought for terrain and terrorised and drove out those upon it as they advanced or retreated.
(5) Are we finally gearing up for a violent uprising of the proletariat?
(6) They dreamed of bringing proletariat and intellectuals together into one critical mass which would blow their post-Stalinist regimes apart.
(7) If the future of cities means a proletariat turning back into a peasantry, we ought not to expect them to be happy about it.
(8) Marx and Engels’s revolutionary summons to the working classes details the nature of the class struggles between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, and the problems with capitalism.
(9) "Execute anybody with the temerity to impose fascist regimes such as websense and firewalls on the World Cup watching, work shy members of the proletariat such as myself.
(10) Despite Gorz's longstanding links with trade unions, he increasingly looked beyond the traditional Marxian proletariat to implement his "radically reformist" programme, which advocated a mass exodus from the employment relationship and from commodity-based social relations.
(11) There is, of course, a long history of public campaigns featuring ludicrous and fictitious characters designed to convey messages to the proletariat.
(12) Proximity to British arguments helped shape Marx ’s vision of a proletariat goaded by the inequities and degradations of industrial capitalism into a revolutionary redemption of human existence.
(13) On the now government owned estates, they have formed a kind of industrial proletariat, living in long estate line housing where each family has one or two rooms.
(14) The considerable influence that physicians retain and their level of skill keep them from fitting a strict Marxist definition of the proletariat.
(15) The only people who truly bought into our fantasies of seizing power in the name of the proletariat, were the various arms of the security state such as MI5 and the Metropolitan Police Special Branch.
(16) Globalisation has been the explicit strategy of multinational corporations seeking new proletariats to land on in other countries.
(17) We celebrate them here … Ministry – With Sympathy (1983) Ministry - (1983) With sympathy Long before they honed their monolithic industrial metal sound, Ministry were just another of the 80s new wave proletariat.
(18) In his account, the early New Labour period saw the final confirmation that as far as what used to be called the proletariat was concerned, "middle-class progressives who had traditionally come out fighting these underdogs' corner, or reporting their condition as missionaries or journalists, were keen to silence them, or bury them without an obituary.
(19) Perhaps it's a pity, therefore, that all that survived of his preface to the novel was a single, dogmatic sentence: "As long as social damnation exists, through laws and customs, artificially creating hell at the heart of civilisation and muddying a destiny that is divine with human calamity; as long as the three problems of the century - man's debasement through the proletariat, woman's demoralisation through hunger, the wasting of the child through darkness - are not resolved; as long as social suffocation is possible in certain areas; in other words, and to take an even broader view, as long as ignorance and misery exist in this world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not entirely useless."
(20) Just as the established church, rich landowners and Jews were to be swept away by the poor of medieval Europe, so the "world Jewish conspiracy" was to make way for the Third Reich, or the Marxist proletariat succeed the bourgeoisie.