Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Powell, Elizabeth Caroline URN etd-11282006-111341 Title The Political Use of "Family Values" Rhetoric Degree Master of Arts Department Communications Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Dr. Michael Bruner Committee Chair Dr. Mary Stuckey Committee Member Dr. Merrill Morris Committee Member Keywords
- family values
- American family
- nuclear family
- traditional family
- welfare reform
Date of Defense 2006-11-08 Availability unrestricted Abstract The bipartisan political slogan “family values,” coupled with discourse surrounding the supposed breakdown of the American family, is a rhetorical move used by political agencies in an effort to excuse the socio-economic failings in America and to reassign responsibility for these failings to the private sphere. This rhetoric tends to promote the idealized nuclear family, while marginalizing the poor and non-traditional family groups.Files
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