SCLG3601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Neoconservatism, Family Values, Neoliberalism

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SCLG3601
• Professor: Melinda Cooper

Document Summary

In practice, neoliberals have consistently worked in alliance with a variety of new social conservatisms their alliance forms the new right (see lesley hoggart) Neoconservatives secular values conservatives, loss of traditional family values, Culture wars attacks on campus politics, foreign policy hawks. The religious right (evangelical protestants, conservative catholics) New paternalists work for the dole or workfare. Each of these social conservative philosophies are in some way critical of radical free market economics on moral grounds. They seek to restore republican virtue, family values, moral values in the face of the market"s homogenizing, morally neutralizing onslaught. (however they are not interested in restoring equality) Neoliberals, for their part, are not social conservatives see hayek why i am not a. Conservative ; some are self-consciously indifferent to traditional moral values concerning drugs, sex, crime (friedman, becker, posner); some respect the value of religious traditions for pragmatic purposes (hayek)