Date of Award
12-4-2006
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Communication
First Advisor
Dr. Michael Bruner - Chair
Second Advisor
Dr. Mary Stuckey
Third Advisor
Dr. Merrill Morris
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.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/1061283
Recommended Citation
Powell, Elizabeth Caroline, "The Political Use of "Family Values" Rhetoric." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2006.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/1061283