traditional values
Time-honored moral standards
Traditional values are beliefs and social norms inherited from earlier generations, typically emphasizing family structure, religious faith, patriotism, and conventional gender roles.
The phrase often signals conservative political positions, particularly opposition to social changes around sexuality, marriage, and secularism: a candidate running on traditional values, Traditional values voters turned out in record numbers.
What counts as traditional varies by culture and speaker.
- conformityAdherence to norms
- marriageFormal union between partners
- wedding vowsSpoken marriage commitments
- filial pietyRespect owed to parents
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
blood ties · integrity · ancestral wisdom · parenthood · Sunday dinner · faith · customs · family honor · duty · work ethic · honesty · oral traditions · societal expectations · devotion · respect · humility · collective identity · patriotism
- relationship beliefsmonogamy, polyamory, soulmate, true love, fidelity
- center-rightChristian Democrats, CSU, Conservative Party, Tories, Tory
- patriarchymale dominance, male supremacy, pater familias, patria potestas, male privilege
- kinshipmother, father, sister, brother, children
- aging signswrinkles, fine lines, wrinkled skin, gray hair, frown lines
- controversiescontroversy, dispute, scandal, outcry, outrage
traditional valuesprogressive ideals
Principles advocating gradual improvement
progressive values · modernism · progressive politics · radical politics · counterculture
traditional valuesprogressivism
Philosophy advocating societal reform
liberalism · radicalism · reformism · revolutionary ideals · egalitarianism
traditional valuessecular humanism
Nonreligious ethical philosophy
secularism · rationalism · individualism · freethinking · situational ethics
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