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social conservatism
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conservative political ideology advocating traditional values and power structures
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- political ideology
- Subclass of
- conservatism
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- different from
- paternalistic conservatism
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- Category:Social conservatism
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Encyclopedic overview
Social conservatism is a political philosophy and a variety of conservatism that places emphasis on conserving the traditional moral values of the society, typically sourced from a religion. It also aims to preserve traditional social structures over social pluralism. Social conservatives organize in favor of duty, traditional values, and social institutions, such as traditional family structures, gender roles, sexual relations, national patriotism, and religious traditions. Social conservatism is usually skeptical of social change, instead tending to support the status quo concerning social issues.
Social conservatives also value the rights of religious institutions to participate in the public sphere, thus often supporting government-religious endorsement and opposing state atheism, and in some cases opposing secularism.
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