I suppose that's a risk one takes when using that word in modern conversation, but I literally mean it in the dictionary-definition sense (i.e. "of or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes").
Feel free to substitute "middle-class" for "bourgeois" if it sounds less political or inflammatory to your ears.
Feel free to substitute "middle-class" for "bourgeois" if it sounds less political or inflammatory to your ears.