Everyday Hyphens: Exploring Youth Identities with Methodological and Analytic Pluralism
- ISSN: 14780887
- DOI: 10.1080/14780887.2011.572743
Abstract
Taking seriously the call for methodological and analytic pluralism, we advance three key assumptions of theory and method: 1) young people develop hyphenated selves in shifting social and political contexts and in everyday circumstances; 2) pluralistic methods and research designs have the potential to capture identity movement across time and space; and 3) a pluralistic approach to analysis, specifically using a dialogical framework, allows hyphenated selves to be heard and interpreted in a way that neither pathologizes contradiction nor privileges coherence but presents a skillfully woven narrative about the self. To take up these questions, we draw upon the visual and textual narratives produced by three adolescents participating in a longitudinal, multimethod study designed to document social and academic engagement among urban youth.
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