Conservatism

Conservatism is a type of political belief that supports emphasis on traditions and relies on the individual to maintain society.^[1] The term was first used by François-René de Chateaubriand in 1818,^[2] during the Bourbon Restoration, which wanted to roll back the policies of the French Revolution. The term is associated with right-wing politics. It has been used to describe a wide range of views. There is no single set of policies that are regarded as conservative because the meaning of conservatism depends on a given place and time, although most Conservatives oppose Modernism in some way and want to go back to old values.^[3][4] In Western culture for example, Conservatives try to maintain things like organized religion, property rights, parliamentary government and family values.

1. ↑ Ball, Terence; Dagger, Richard; Minogue, Kenneth; Viereck, Peter (26 July 1999). "Conservatism | History, Intellectual Foundations, & Examples". Encyclopedia Britannica. Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
2. ↑ Muller, Jerry Z. (4 May 1997). Conservatism : an anthology of social and political thought from David Hume to the present. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-691-03711-0. Retrieved 8 June 2021. Terms related to 'conservative' first found their way into political discourse in the title of the French weekly journal, Le Conservateur, founded in 1818 by François-René de Chateaubriand with the aid of Louis de Bonald.
3. ↑ McLean, Iain; McMillan, Alistair (2009). "Conservatism". Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. "Sometimes [conservatism] has been outright opposition, based on an existing model of society that is considered right for all time. It can take a 'reactionary' form, harking back to, and attempting to reconstruct, forms of society which existed in an earlier period". ISBN 978-0-19-920516-5.
4. ↑ "Conservatism (political philosophy)". Britannica.com. Retrieved November 1, 2009.