No single method can capture all of identity’s complexity
Evidence
The method of analysis selected by the researcher makes salient which aspect of identity comes into view, and such ‘partial accounts’ contribute to the broader understanding of identity that we advocate here. … Although these lines of research have often remained separate from one another, the combination of their diverse theoretical and methodological strengths – including the microanalysis of conversation, the macroanalysis of ideological processes, the quantitative and qualitative analysis of linguistic structures, and the ethnographic focus on local cultural practices and social groupings – calls attention to the fact that identity in all its complexity can never be contained within a single analysis. For this reason, it is necessary to conceive of sociocultural linguistics broadly and inclusively. — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction, 118
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Identity works multiplicatively so no single dimension can be subtracted — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1165; Identity is positional and processual, never reducible to one fixed position; Identity is constructed jointly by several indexical levels rather than one — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction: A…, 70 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Identity is positional and processual, never reducible to one fixed position
#expands(0.88) - Identity is a contradictory, multi-discursive, non-closed totality
#corroborates(0.87) - Reducing all complexity to one formation yields idealization, not knowledge of totality
#expands(0.86) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 473 - Identity is constructed jointly by several indexical levels rather than one
#expands(0.85) — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction, 70 - Identity works multiplicatively so no single dimension can be subtracted
#expands(0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1165 - Identities co-create each other so no category has analytic priority
#expands(0.80) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 83