Plain people

For other uses of this term, see commoners. For crowd, mass or crowd, see crowd. For the Venezuelan locality, see Pueblo Llano. In the colloquial language, the part of the society defined as the lower class is called as a lower class, and in every age it is also known by other names (the plebs, the common, the flat state, the masses, among others).

From the origin of the term, there is its relation with the social condition, since in Rome used Senatus Populusque Romanus (SPQR) to designate the totality of the State, in to the patricios (that formed the Senate) and the commoners. During Feudalism, the social division between privileged estates (nobility and clergy) and non-privileged (all others, including enriched bourgeoisie, poor urban layers and peasantry) made it clear that among the latter, it is where the people were plain or village to dry. The divisions between Popolo Grosso and Popolo Minute (fat and thin, in Italian), clear since the late Middle Ages, arise from the enrichment of the bourgeoisie of artisans and merchants who accede to the government of the cities and become urban patriciate (ciutadans honorists in Barcelona, ​​for example).

The Bourgeois Revolution, the Liberal Revolution and the Industrial Revolution, accentuated the class differences in such a way that the concept of people is already used differently. Notes

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