Is U.K. still conservative?

Question

The brittish society was said, in the past, to be liberal in economy, but conservative in morals. Is England still conservative, with the aristocracy influencing in the mentalities? Does the society have many taboos? Do the women have the same rights than men? Are children allowed to be beaten? And the homossexuals, have rights? Is there much freedom? Is the sexual education clear? I've read that there's in England college to men and college to women, separating the s*x, is that true? Sorry for the askings, but I'm a sociologist student, and I have a work to do. If could answer me, ill thank you!

Answer 1

The aristocracy never influenced minds because they were terrified of the working classes and the fact that we might have a revolution like France. It nearly became a reality as underground troops were preparing by drilling and marching. We were more class segregated in the  19th century. So there was  different set of morals in existence for each class - The middle class not the aristocracy having the most conservative morals.

It is a small island plus Northern Ireland and there is a huge difference from the city to the countryside. The countryside is far more conservative in every way. The cities since being the first industrialized nation have always been more radical. Being an island we have only been conquered twice and that leads to conservatism and pride and small mindedness.  

I don't think that we have so many taboos. The Women on the whole have the same rights as men but still not the same pay or equality of opportunity but there is a strong womens voice to be heard.

Children are not allowed to be beaten.Homosexuals have rights and can now have civil partnerships.

There is freedom of thought and speech and we have always loved wacky people who buck the norms.

I think we have always been pretty repressed at Sexual education but I think it is clearer now than ever before.

the colleges you are think ing of are in Oxford and Cambridge out top universities which  still run on traditional lines because our heritage is what brings visitors to this country. The rest are just ordinarily mixed.

Answer 2

Where have you got your odd information from?

We are not "conservative" - The aristocracy contribute nothing and therefore there influence is zero! Women and men are equal, homosexuals are equal, s*x education is at a young age and increasingly explicit. There are few single-s*x schools or colleges.

Answer 3

The UK is conservative with a small c. In the past one hundred years there has been more Conservative governments than Labour governments. Independent voters will throw out a Conservative government from time to time when they are sick of pomposity & an indifferent attitude. The English are mainly Anglo-Saxons and continue a heritage of tradition going back before the middle ages and these attitudes are in themselves conservative but now there is little or no separation of the sexes in the education system and increasingly in other areas of life.

    Britain has been through what parts of the media labelled "The Blair revolution" for the last ten years. I believe that people in general are tired of this liberal agenda which has promised so much but delivered so little. It is increasingly likely that the next General Election will be won by the Conservative Party (so current polls suggest) and there could well be a quite radical change in Britain under the Conservative leader David Cameron who is a traditional right-winger but with a genuine streak of compassion in his politics.

Answer 4

It's similar to the US, there is still an aristocratic influence in the elite class, or at least appears to be one on TV, but the majority of the people, just like it had been centuries in the past, are not necessarily very conservative. Many of the institutionalized things such as seperating men and women are based on tradition. That does not necessarily mean that the society itself is conservative.

Answer 5

No

No

Yes

No

Yes

Yes, but decreasing rapidly

School is a distant memory for me

College is a distant memory for me

Some of these answers are a matter of opinion!