Identity relations involve more than a single sameness-difference axis.

Evidence

In calling attention to relationality, we have two aims: first, to underscore the point that identities are never autonomous or independent but always acquire social meaning in relation to other available identity positions and other social actors; and second, to call into question the widespread but oversimplified view of identity relations as revolving around a single axis: sameness and difference. — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction, 71

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sets up the fourth principle (relationality) and announces the three-fold pair taxonomy that structures the rest of the paper.
• XREF: Directly answers the reader’s stated purpose — this is principle #4 among the five they’re hunting for (emergence, positionality, indexicality, relationality, partialness). — connects to: Identity similarity is interactionally achieved, not a matter of actual sameness.; Playful performance can denaturalize links between phenotype and ethnic identity. — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction: A…, 99; Identity is constituted through relation to what is other and different from itself — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 378 (+2 more)

Related

• Identity is constituted through relation to what is other and different from itself (similarity 0.84)
• Identity similarity is interactionally achieved, not a matter of actual sameness. (similarity 0.84)
• Identity analyses should combine multiple dimensions rather than foreground one (similarity 0.83)
• Identity ranges across macro demographic categories, local cultural positions, and fleeting interactional stances. (similarity 0.83)
• Difference is better studied relationally than as exclusionary categories. (similarity 0.82)
• Identity is formed through contrast with difference (similarity 0.82)
• Multiple modes of relating define the world simultaneously, not as guises but identities (similarity 0.82)
• Identity is simultaneously about belonging and about differentiating from others. (similarity 0.82)
• Identity emerges in discourse rather than preceding it (similarity 0.82)
• Identity theories lag behind the linguistic research that has made identity central. (similarity 0.82)
• Relational identity replaces legitimacy with pure contingency (similarity 0.81)
• Identity is contradictory, multi-discursive, and constructed across the other’s silences. (similarity 0.80)
• Difference is relational, embedded in power, and generative. (similarity 0.80)
• Identity is constructed jointly by several indexical levels rather than one (similarity 0.80)
• Identity is positional and processual, never reducible to one fixed position (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Identity is constituted through relation to what is other and different from itself #exemplifies (0.80) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 378
• Identity is constructed through opposition to a continuously reinterpreted other #exemplifies (0.80)
• Identity is formed through contrast with difference #exemplifies (0.78)