Identity ranges across macro demographic categories, local cultural positions, and fleeting interactional stances.

Evidence

Our own perspective therefore broadens the traditional referential range of identity to encompass not only more widely recognized constructs of social subjectivity but also local identity categories and transitory interactional positions: … 2. Identities encompass (a) macro-level demographic categories; (b) local, ethnographically specific cultural positions; and (c) temporary and interactionally specific stances and participant roles. — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction, 38

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sets up the three-tiered view of identity as the chapter’s operational frame.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s search for identity’s five principles of emergence, positionality, indexicality, relationality, partialness. — connects to: Local identity categories often explain linguistic practice better than analysts’ broad sociological categories. — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction: A…, 35; Community-based common identities may last where national identity priming fades. — Rachel Hartman et al., Interventions to Reduce Partisan…, 42; Macro social categories poorly capture the identity relations that matter locally — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction: A…, 35 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Mixed-race individuals often shift self-categorization across contexts and lifespan. #exemplifies (0.88) — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or Neither, 47
• Everyone is composed of multiple social identities that position them differently #expands (0.85)
• Mixed-identity individuals shift between racial identities to meet context-specific needs. #exemplifies (0.85) — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or Neither, 64
• Macro social categories poorly capture the identity relations that matter locally #corroborates (0.82) — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction, 35
• Racial identity forms in settings and social exchanges, not just within individuals. #exemplifies (0.80)
• Community-based common identities may last where national identity priming fades. #exemplifies (0.78) — Rachel Hartman et al., Interventions to Reduce Partisan…, 42
• Identity relations involve more than a single sameness-difference axis. #corroborates (0.78) — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction, 71
• Group identity is malleable and its salience can shift. #expands (0.75)
• Collective identities like class, race, nation and gender positioned the individual self #qualifies (0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 188
• National identities vary from civic inclusion to ethnonational exclusion of others. #exemplifies (0.72) — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 25