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Traditionalism involves respecting and upholding traditional values, morality, norms, and practices of one’s own social group. It also includes active resistance to changing traditional values, morality, norms, and practices.
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Traditionalism is broadly concerned with a focus on the past of one’s own group. Although any group can be the source of traditions, traditionalists most often focus on the past of their own large-scale groups, such as cultural, ethnic, national, and religious groups. Traditionalism can refer to both economic and social conservatism. Psychologists, however, have mostly studied traditionalism in reference to social conservatism, and they have usually focused on individuals who want to preserve social values, morality, norms, and practices. Nonetheless, the term traditionalism may also relate to conservatism in economic activities – especially when these connect to traditional morality...
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Bizumic, B. (2017). Traditionalism. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_874-1
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