Do. Braithwaite et La. Baxter, I DO AGAIN - THE RELATIONAL DIALECTICS OF RENEWING MARRIAGE VOWS, Journal of social and personal relationships, 12(2), 1995, pp. 177-198
This study provides descriptive insight into the dialectical themes of
one public relationship ritual in modern US society, the renewal of m
arital vows between spouses. Interpretive analyses of in-depth intervi
ew data revealed that this ritual allows spouses to manage three under
lying dialectical contradictions: private-public, stability-change and
conventionality-uniqueness.