Static categories only partly explain identity positioning

Evidence

In the analysis of these girls’ speech, classification along demographic lines of gender, age, race, and class provides part of the picture, but more can be learned by considering other ways in which these girls position themselves and others subjectively and intersubjectively. First, by viewing the girls as members of a single age cohort, we can recognize the importance of age – specifically youthfulness – as a shared social identity that is expressed through the use of innovative quotative markers. Second, through ethnographically obtained information about these girls’ affiliation with contrasting, locally developed social styles at the high school, we can make sense of their divergent quotative choices. — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction, 46

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Core demonstration that identity work requires looking past demographic boxes to local, interactional, ethnographic levels — the layered method at the paper’s heart.
• XREF: connects to: Identity is constructed jointly by several indexical levels rather than one — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction: A…, 70; Identity labels are only starting points, never fixed categories; Categories require an implicit theory of why members belong together (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Identity labels are only starting points, never fixed categories #corroborates (0.88)
• Identity is constructed jointly by several indexical levels rather than one #expands (0.85) — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction, 70
• Macro social categories poorly capture the identity relations that matter locally #corroborates (0.85) — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction, 35
• Identities co-create each other so no category has analytic priority #expands (0.80) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 83
• Mixed identities involve ambiguously crossing mutually exclusive categories within a single social domain #exemplifies (0.78) — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or Neither, 15
• Immigrant identity conflicts can be framed as nested category structures #exemplifies (0.76) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 743
• Identity forms only within collectivities rooted in historical circumstances #complicates (0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4119
• Identity is constituted within representation rather than pre-existing it #qualifies (0.74)
• Complex categorical placement depends on personal biographical knowledge #qualifies (0.73)
• Categories require an implicit theory of why members belong together #qualifies (0.72)
• Categories require an intuitive theory linking features, not just shared similarities #qualifies (0.72) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1382