Cultural perspective emphasising permissiveness of traditionally shunned behaviour
This article is about the social philosophy. For the variety of liberalism that endorses a regulated market economy and the expansion of civil and political rights, see Social liberalism.
Cultural liberalism is a social philosophy which expresses the social dimension of liberalism and advocates the freedom of individuals to choose whether to conform to cultural norms. In the words of Henry David Thoreau, it is often expressed as the right to "march to the beat of a different drummer".[1] Also known as social liberalism in the United States and Canada, cultural progressivism is used in a substantially similar context, although it does not mean exactly the same thing as cultural liberalism.[2][failed verification]
^Thoreau, Henry David (1854). Walden. "Conclusion".
^Nancy L. Cohen, ed. (2012). Delirium: The Politics of Sex in America. Catapult. ISBN9781619020962. When the going got tough, the economic progressives got going back to the Reagan days when the cultural progressives were to blame. Clinton's presidential campaign had 'signaled cultural moderation and articulated the pocketbook frustrations of ordinary people,' Robert Kuttner, editor of The American Prospect ventured. 'But in office he seemed a cultural liberal who failed to produce on economics.'
^Chideya, Farai (2004). "The Red and the Blue: A Divided America". Trust: Reaching the 100 Million Missing Voters and Other Selected Essays. Soft Skull Press. pp. 33–46. ISBN9781932360264.
Bibliography
Willard, Charles Arthur (1996). Liberalism and the Problem of Knowledge: A New Rhetoric for Modern Democracy. University of Chicago Press. ISBN978-0226898452.
