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Flashcards by Yasmine King, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Yasmine King
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| Question | Answer |
| Authoritarian | A belief that strong central authority imposed from above, is either desirable or necessary, and therefore demands unquestioning obedience |
| New Right | An ideological trend within conservatism that embraces a blend of market individualism and social authoritarianism |
| Tradition | Values, practices or institutions that have endured through time and, in particular, been passed down from one generation to the next |
| Anomie | A weakening of values and normative rules, associated with feelings of isolation, loneliness and meaninglessness |
| Organicism | A belief that society operates like an organism or living entity, the whole being more than a collection of its individual parts |
| Functionalism | The theory that social institutions and practices should be understood in terms of the functions they carry out in sustaining the larger social system |
| Hierarchy | A graduation of social positions or status; hierarchy implies structural or fixed inequality in which positions is unconnected with individual ability |
| Natural Aristocracy | The idea that talent and leadership are innate or inbred qualities that cannot be acquired through effort or self- advancement. |
| Authority | The right to exert influence over others by virtue of an acknowledged obligation to obey |
| Property | The ownership of physical goods or wealth, whether by private individuals, groups of people or the state |
| Privitization | The transfer of state assets from the public to the private sector, reflecting a contraction of the state's responsibilities |
| Populism | A belief that popular instincts and wishes are the principal legitimate guide to political action, often reflecting distrust pf or hostility towards political elites |
| Christian Democracy | An ideological tradition within European conservatism that is characterised by a commitment to the social market and qualified economic intervention |
| Social Market | An economy that is structured by market principles but which operates in the context of a society in which cohesion is maintained through a comprehensive welfare system and effective public services |
| Economic Liberalism | A belief in the market as a self- regulating mechanism that tends naturally to deliver general prosperity and opportunities for all. |
| Neoliberalism | An updated version of classical political economy that is dedicated to market individualism and minimal statism |
| Neoconservatism | A modern version of social conservatism that emphasises the need to restore order, return to traditional or family values, or to revitalise nationalism |
| Permissiveness | The willingness to allow people to make their moral choices; permissiveness suggests that there are no authoritative values. |
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