conservative
(noun)
A person who favors maintenance of the status quo or reversion to some earlier status.
Examples of conservative in the following topics:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Social Movements
- In large part, these oppositional groups formed because the women's movement advocated for reform in conservative religions.
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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.
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Control Theory
- Moreover, control theory is met with some resistance for its compliance to a conservative view of the broader social order.
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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).
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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.
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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.