Class, Culture and Morality

A Sociological Analysis of Neo-Conservatism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3264307
AutoresBrian Elliott (0000-0002-2456-1983), David Mccrone
Año1987
Volumen35
Número3
Páginas485-515
Fecha de publicación1987-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-954x.1987.tb00553.x
OpenAlexW2078716540
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas14

In Britain, as in many other western countries, there emerged in the mid-1970s a variety of business associations, policy and research institutes and political leagues, committed not only to the restoration of a Conservative government, but also to a much broader refurbishing of conservatism. A network of organizations, individuals and ideas grew up that became identified as the New Right. The New Right, which clearly has an international character, was generated by economic and political crises, but it was nurtured by a variety of resentments and discontents whose roots lay in structural and cultural changes that had developed over the whole post-war period. Drawing, in part, upon interviews with leaders of the organisations that did most to mobilize opinion behind the New Right in Britain, the article examines the major changes - particularly those in class structure and in culture - to which the new conservatives were reacting. It explores the major ideological strands - libertarian, neo-liberal and conservative - and looks at the attempts by the New Right to use these to produce changes not only in economic policy but in the cultural and moral fabric of society

Conservatism · Government (linguistics) · Ideology · Morality · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resentment · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics) · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Policy and Reform Studies