Abstract

Intersectionality is a powerful concept within sociology, urging scholars to consider how an array of socially constructed dimensions of difference intersect to shape each person’s experiences and actions. This paper provides a number of different blueprints for designing intersectional research, which can be adapted for different purposes. The key methodological tenets of intersectional research are oppression, relationality, complexity, context, comparison, and deconstruction. This paper defines these tenets, addresses misunderstandings of their implications, and applies these tenets to existing intersectional research. Multiple qualitative, comparative, and quantitative strategies can be used to carry out intersectional research; there is not just one way to do intersectional empirical research. While intersectional methods require thought in designing the research, they are doable. What is more, they provide much more nuanced understandings of social relations and inequality. If race, class, gender and other socially constructed dimensions of difference are understood not as static but as dynamic, researchers can employ a wide variety of methodological tools to analyze power relations via their intersections.

摘要

交叉性是社会学中的一个强大概念，它促使学者们思考社会建构的差异维度如何相交以塑造每个人的经历和行为。本文为设计交叉研究提供了许多不同的蓝图，这些蓝图可以适应不同的目的。交叉研究的主要方法论宗旨是压迫，关系，复杂性，背景，比较和解构。本文定义了这些原则，解决了其含义的误解，并将这些原则应用于现有的交叉研究。可以使用多种定性，比较和定量策略进行交叉研究。进行交叉实证研究不仅是一种方法。尽管交叉方法在设计研究时需要考虑，但它们是可行的。而且，它们提供了对社会关系和不平等的细微差别的理解。如果将种族，阶级，性别和其他社会建构的差异维度理解为不是静态的，而是动态的，那么研究人员可以采用多种方法论工具，通过他们的交集来分析权力关系。