Unraveling The Knot

Engstrom, Erika

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“…Wedding perfection is often accompanied by stress, obsession, and a “bridezilla persona” (Stafford et al, 2020, p. 228). Engaged couples, and brides in particular, strive to create a unique and personalized perfect day that still adheres to traditional wedding expectations (Besel et al, 2009; Carter & Duncan, 2017; Engstrom, 2008; Jellison, 2008; Stafford et al, 2020).…”

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“…Further,When such messages come to dominate and crowd out other, less-than-perfect portrayals of the wedding, alternative weddings such as the low-key city hall ceremony or “quickie” Las Vegas chapel wedding, or low-budget weddings…become less desirable. In addition, because they run counter to the usual wedding formula, their legitimacy is questioned (Engstrom, 2008, p. 75).…”

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“…These wedding rituals are multilayered events symbolic of both separation from families of origin and the union of not only the couple, but of two families and the recognition of the couple in an extended network of family ties (Baxter & Braithwaite, 2006). From a young age, individuals are exposed to dominant discourses that conceptualize weddings as the perfect day and the best day of a woman’s life (Otnes & Peck, 2003; Stafford & Scott, 2015; Stafford et al, 2020) Dominant culture treats wedding planning as a meticulous process necessary to create the perfect day (Arend, 2016; Engstrom, 2008; Stafford et al, 2020). This process, predominantly undertaken by brides, can take weeks, months, or years (Carter & Duncan, 2017).…”

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Counter-Hegemonic Narratives of White Weddings: Brides Responses to Wedding Disruptions During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Pollino

Stafford

Scott

2023

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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Dominant cultural discourses dictate what the ideal wedding should look like, and these discourses often center around the white wedding. White weddings typically include a bride in a white dress, a large reception, and a honeymoon. Given that western culture privileges the white wedding, weddings that deviate from this norm are sometimes delegitimatized. We used Relational Dialectics Theory 2.0 to examine dominant discourses of weddings during Covid-19. Covid-19 necessitated that many couples alter their wedding plans and prompted them to explicitly consider the taken-for-granted assumptions of the white wedding. We conducted a contrapuntal analysis of 87 recently married women’s open-ended survey responses about how Covid-19 changed their wedding plans and what the women liked and disliked about these changes. These disruptions in wedding plans afford the opportunity to explore dominant white wedding discourses among brides. The following discourses emerged from our analysis: the centripetal discourse of the white wedding, the centrifugal discourse of the focus on relationships, the centripetal discourses of the perfect day, and the centrifugal discourses of the perfect day.

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Counter-Hegemonic Narratives of White Weddings: Brides Responses to Wedding Disruptions During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Pollino

Stafford

Scott

2023

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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“…Store, påkostede bryllup øker i omfang, og en bryllupsindustri med magasiner, tv-serier og bryllupsplanleggere har vokst frem (Engstrom, 2008;Otnes & Pleck, 2003). Medienes formidling av hvordan bryllup gjennomføres -gjennom bryllupsmagasiner, Hollywood-filmer og reality-program -påvirker forventningene til bryllup (Carter & Duncan, 2017;Engstrom, 2008).…”

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“…2014). Utviklingen stimulerer forestillinger om perfeksjon som er med på å legitimere at høye kostnader er nødvendig (Engstrom, 2008).…”

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Bryllup i avtradisjonaliseringens tidsalder

Ellingsæter¹

2018

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Professor i sosiologi, Universitetet i Oslo a.l.ellingsater@sosgeo.uio.no SAMMENDRAG Avtradisjonalisering er et kjennetegn ved senmoderne samfunn. Utviklingen i ekteskapsinstitusjonen speiler avtradisjonaliseringsprosesser: ekteskapsratene går ned, samboerskap er blitt vanlig, flere barn fødes utenfor ekteskap og flere skiller seg. Ekteskapet har mistet sin selvfølgelige status som institusjonell ramme for samliv og foreldreskap. Men hvorfor fortsetter likevel det store flertallet å gifte seg, også i Norge, et land der avtradisjonaliseringsprosessene er mest markante? Basert på intervjuer med 27 kvinner og menn som enten nylig hadde giftet seg eller planla bryllup, undersøkes følgende to spørsmål i denne artikkelen: Hvilke motivasjoner hadde de for å følge tradisjonen med å gifte seg? Og hvordan skjedde ekteskapsinngåelsen -hvilken plass og mening hadde tradisjoner som frieri, vielse, bryllupsfeiring og navnebytte? Den gjengse motivasjonen for å gifte seg var at ekteskapskontrakten gir økt følelsesmessig trygghet i en tid med ustabile samliv. Tradisjonelle elementer inngikk i bryllupsritualene-men i flytende blandinger og omfang, og valgene involverte ulike nivåer av refleksjon og tilpasninger.Nøkkelord ekteskap, bryllup, tradisjoner, ritualer, kjønn, Norge ABSTRACT Detraditionalisation is a characteristic of late modern society. Changes in the marriage institution signify detradtionalisation processes: Falling marriage rates, rising cohabitation, more children born outside marriage and increasing divorce rates. Marriage has lost its self-evident status as the institutional frame of intimate relations and parenthood. But why does a large majority still marry in Norway, a country where the processes of detraditionalisation are most prominent? Based on interviews with 27 women and men who had recently married or were soon going to, this article addresses two questions: What motivations did they have to follow the tradition of marriage? And how did the marriage happen

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Media Representations of Family in the U nited S tates

Weinbrenner

Fernandez-Baca

2016

Encyclopedia of Family Studies

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American media portrayals of family are tied to social, historical, and economic factors often overlooked in the contemporary debate about family ideals. Emerging out of a period of growth in the post‐World War II era, the nuclear family and its characteristics have been imbued into the daily discussions about the subject. The effect on gender, race, sexuality, and class in media portrayals has been studied by a range of scholars. Within gender, women seek to bridge the private and public spheres while men rarely find themselves represented at home. Minorities struggle for accurate portrayals that will destigmatize them. Meanwhile, LGBT families strive to be seen at all. Class finds itself commonly used to segment viewers, allowing them to identify both by behavior and spending habits. Mass media can provide both a repetitive and a hegemonic view of family, and a medium to challenge notions of family and create a societal discussion.

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Unraveling The Knot

Cited by 16 publications

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Counter-Hegemonic Narratives of White Weddings: Brides Responses to Wedding Disruptions During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Counter-Hegemonic Narratives of White Weddings: Brides Responses to Wedding Disruptions During the Covid-19 Pandemic

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Media Representations of Family in the U nited S tates

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