Social Conservatism

Annotated Bibliography 2: Social conservatism

Harnish, R. J., Bridges, K. R., & Gump, J. T. (2018). Predicting economic, social, and foreign policy conservatism: The role of right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, moral foundations orientation, and religious fundamentalism. Current Psychology, 37(3), 668-679.

This study focuses on examining the relationship between different factors such as Social Dominance orientations, religious fundamentalism, and Right-Wing authoritarianism and conservatism. The researchers believe that each factor can predict different conservatism, including economic conservatism. They argue that understanding social, economic, and foreign policy conservatism can help researchers access more knowledge about human conservatism attitudes. The study aims at identifying whether different ideological attitudes such as social dominance, moral foundations, and religious orientations can predict social, economic, and foreign policy conservatism. The study results show a close link between each of the ideological attitudes above and different types of conservatism.

Kerry, N., & Murray, D. R. (2018). Conservative parenting: Investigating the relationships between parenthood, moral judgment, and social conservatism. Personality and Individual Differences, 134, 88-96.

This study investigates whether parenthood influences individuals’ morals, motivation, and social conservatism. The researchers first argue that parenting is an essential part of human life that can influence who a person becomes in the future. This perspective sets the foundation for why it is important to understand or identify whether parenthood influences individuals’ motivation, morals, and social behaviors. The result of the study reveals that parenthood and parenting influence individual social conservatism in different ways. Parenthood and parenting motivation specifically support a good relationship among age, moral and social conservatism in an individual.

Yilmaz, O., & Alper, S. (2019). The link between intuitive thinking and social conservatism is stronger in WEIRD societies.

This study includes an argument that although most of the previous studies are based on Western literature, democratic and wealthy society (weird society), they do not explain whether this particular interaction and relationship has cross-culturally stable characteristics. The researchers, therefore, analyze to fill this gap. The result indicates that the relationship is stronger in a society with a weird culture than one with a non-weird culture.