conservative

Examples of conservative in the following topics:

• Culture Wars

  • In American usage, "culture war" refers to the claim that there is a conflict between those conservative and liberal values.
  • At the 1992 Republican National Convention, conservative pundit Patrick Buchanan gave a landmark speech that is now often referred to as his "culture war speech. " In it, he defined the battle lines between the two sides in the culture war, which he claimed was being fought by Republicans and Democrats.
  • In American usage, the term culture war is used to claim that there is a conflict between those values considered traditionalist or conservative and those considered progressive or liberal.
  • In the 1980s, the culture war in America was characterized by the conservative climate during the presidency of Ronald Reagan.

• Types of Social Movements

  • Type of Change: A movement might seek change that is either innovative or conservative.
  • An innovative movement wants to introduce or change norms and values while a conservative movement seeks to preserve existing norms and values.

• Multiple relations

  • Material things are "conserved" in the sense that they can only be located at one node of the network at a time.
  • Informational things, to the systems theorist, are "non-conserved" in the sense that they can be in more than one place at the same time.

• Introduction

  • For instance, the women's movement of the 1960s and 1970s resulted in a number of counter movements that attempted to block the goals of the women's movement, many of which were reform movements within conservative religions.

• Social Movements

  • In large part, these oppositional groups formed because the women's movement advocated for reform in conservative religions.

• Status Inconsistency

  • According to Lenski, the concept can be used to further explain why status groups made up of wealthy minorities who would be presumed conservative tend to be liberal instead.

• Control Theory

  • Moreover, control theory is met with some resistance for its compliance to a conservative view of the broader social order.

• Religious Denominations

  • The term also describes the four branches of Judaism (Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist), and describes the two main branches of Islam (Sunni and Shia).

• Social Correlates of Religion

  • Believers of Catholicism and mainline Protestants were in the middle, and conservative Protestants accumulated the least wealth.
  • The median net worth of people believing in the Jewish religion is calculated at $150,890, while the median net worth of conservative Protestants (including Baptists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-day Adventists, and Christian Scientists) was found at $26,200.

• An Overview of U.S. Values

  • American culture includes both conservative and liberal elements, such as scientific and religious competitiveness, political structures, risk taking and free expression, materialist and moral elements.