Values, practices or institutions that have endured through time and been passed down from one generation to the next.
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Human Imperfection
Conservatives believe that human being are essentially limited and security seeking individuals drawn to the known and familiar.
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Organic Society
A belief that society operates like an organism or living entity, the whole being more than its individual parts.
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Property
The ownership of physical goods or wealth, whether by private individuals, groups of people or the state.
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Hierarchy
A gradation of social positions or status ; hierarchy implies structural or fixed inequality in which position is unconnected with individual ability.
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Authority
The right to exert influence over others by virtue of an acknowledged obligation to obey.
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The free market
An economic system in which prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses.
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Traditional conservatism
A political philosophy emphasising the need for the principles of a transcendent moral order, manifested through certain natural laws to which society ought to conform in a prudent manner.
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The New Right
Those who are ideologically committed to an economic version of libertarianism as well as being socially conservative.
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
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Conservatives believe that human being are essentially limited and security seeking individuals drawn to the known and familiar.
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Human Imperfection
Card 3
Front
A belief that society operates like an organism or living entity, the whole being more than its individual parts.
Back
Card 4
Front
The ownership of physical goods or wealth, whether by private individuals, groups of people or the state.
Back
Card 5
Front
A gradation of social positions or status ; hierarchy implies structural or fixed inequality in which position is unconnected with individual ability.
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