Performing marriage: Marriage renewal rituals as cultural performance

• Autores: Leslie Baxter, Dawn Braithwaite
• Localización: Southern communication journal, ISSN 1041-794X, Vol. 67, nº 2 (INVIERNO), 2001, págs. 94-109
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This interpretative study examined how the marriage renewal ritual reflects the social construcction of marriage in the U.S. Two culturally prominent ideologies of marriage were interwoven in our interviews of 25 married persons who had renewed their marriage vows: (a) a dominant ideology of community and (b) a more muted ideology of individualism. The ideology of community was evidenced by a construction of marriage featuring themes of public accountability, social embeddedness, and permanence. By contrast, the ideology of individualism constructed marriage around themes of love, choice, and individual growth