Bobo (socio-economic group)

Bobo is a portmanteau word used to describe the socio-economic bourgeois-bohemian group in France, the French analogue to the English notion of the "champagne socialist". The term is used extensively in Paris, France, where it originates. The geographer Christophe Guilluy has used the term to describe France's elite class, who he accuses of being responsible for many of France's current problems.[1]

The term was originally introduced into the English language by the cultural commentator David Brooks to describe the 1990s descendants of the yuppies in the book Bobos in Paradise (2000). Brooks describes Bobos as "highly educated folk who have one foot in the bohemian world of creativity and another foot in the bourgeois realm of ambition and worldly success".[2]

See also
  • Bobo brand, a product that is sold under a relatively unfamiliar brand name
  • Renaud, the French popular singer and activist, wrote "Les Bobos" as the first song of his 2006 album Rouge Sang
  • Hipster (contemporary subculture), a related social group

References
  1. "Low Visibility". The New York Review of Books. February 21, 2019.
  2. "In France, a New Class Reinvents the Good Life : 'Bobo' Style Has It Both Ways". The New York Times. October 14, 2000.
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