Communication Studies, Department of
Date of this Version
5-1995
Citation
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 12:2 (May 1995), pp. 177–198.
doi: 10.1177/0265407595122002
Abstract
This study provides descriptive insight into the dialectical themes of one public relationship ritual in modern US society, the renewal of marital vows between spouses. Interpretive analyses of in-depth interview data revealed that this ritual allows spouses to manage three underlying dialectical contradictions: private-public, stability-change, and conventionality-uniqueness.
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Copyright © 1995 Sage. Used by permission.