Accounting for Difference: Commuter Wives and the Master Narrative of Marriage

Autor: Karla Mason Bergen
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: Journal of Applied Communication Research. 38:47-64
ISSN: 1479-5752
0090-9882
DOI: 10.1080/00909880903483565
Popis: This manuscript is one of many in a special issue of the Journal of Applied Communication Research on “Communication and Distance,” Volume 38, No. 1. The purpose of this paper was to examine how, if at all, commuter wives reference the master narrative of marriage in discussing their own marriages. The personal narratives of 25 commuter wives who participated in focus groups and 49 commuter wives who participated in individual interviews were recorded and transcribed. Thematic analysis of the transcripts in the interpretive tradition found that participants used “accounts” in the form of excuses and justifications to explain the difference of their own marriages from the dominant US master narrative of marriage.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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