Conservatism Keywords

Question 1

What is the idea that society is made up of individuals?

Answer 1

Atomism

Question 2

What is the advocacy of strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom?

Answer 2

Authoritarianism

Question 3

Who was the early Conservative thinker who wrote ‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’?

Answer 3

Burke

Question 4

What is the European tradition of conservatism based on limited state intervention?

Answer 4

Christian Democracy

Question 5

What is the idea that the state may need to accept limited change to survive?

Answer 5

Change to conserve

Question 6

What is the idea that knowledge comes from real experience and not from abstract theories?

Answer 6

Empiricism

Question 7

How should social institutions be understood?

Answer 7

In terms of functions they perform in sustaining the social order.

Functionalism

Question 8

How is society ranked?

Answer 8

In a pyramid shape from top to bottom.

Hierarchy

Question 9

Who was the 17th century philosopher who defended authoritarian government to avoid anarchy?

Answer 9

Hobbes

Question 10

What is the traditional conservative belief regarding human decision-making?

Answer 10

Humans are flawed in ways that make them incapable of making good decisions for themselves.

Human imperfection

Question 11

What is the classical liberal economic idea that believes the economy functions best without intervention?

Answer 11

Laissez faire

Question 12

What ideology gives priority to personal liberty over all else?

Answer 12

Libertarianism

Question 13

What is the concept that talent and leadership cannot be learnt, but are innate and inherited?

Answer 13

Natural Aristocracy

Question 14

What ideology emphasizes family, law and order, and religious values?

Answer 14

Neo-conservative

Question 15

What is the political and economic philosophy that emphasizes free trade, deregulation, globalization, and a reduction in government spending?

Answer 15

Neo-liberal

Question 16

What is the combination of neo-Liberals and neo-conservatives called?

Answer 16

New Right

Question 17

What is the duty of the wealthy and privileged to look after those less fortunate?

Answer 17

Noblesse oblige

Question 18

Who is the key new-right thinker known for writing ‘Anarchy, State and Utopia’?

Answer 18

Nozick

Question 19

Who is the Conservative philosopher who argued in favor of traditional values and established customs?

Answer 19

Oakeshott

Question 20

What type of conservatism advocates the preservation of established institutions and traditional principles combined with paternalistic help for the poorest in society?

Answer 20

One-nation conservative

Question 21

What is the idea that society/state is more important than any individual parts?

Answer 21

Organic society

Question 22

What is the idea that the state knows best and it is the duty of the wealthy to look after those who are unable to look after themselves?

Answer 22

Paternalism

Question 23

What is the flexible approach to society with decisions made based on what works, not an ideology?

Answer 23

Pragmatism

Question 24

What belief favors drastic political, economic, and social change?

Answer 24

Radical

Question 25

Who is the conservative writer whose philosophy emphasized laissez faire capitalism and is seen as the inspiration for the new-right?

Answer 25

Rand

Question 26

What is the political ideology focused on the preservation of traditional values and beliefs?

Answer 26

Social conservatism

Question 27

What is Hobbes’ idea that without government, humans would descend into chaos?

Answer 27

State of nature

Life would be nasty, difficult, brutish and short.

Question 28

What belief emphasizes tradition, hierarchy, duty, and organicism?

Answer 28

Toryism

Question 29

What is the concept that keeping things as they are works best?

Answer 29

Traditionalism