Methods of Intersectional Research

• In Event: 3432 - Intersectional Methodologies

Abstract

Intersectionality has been a powerful concept within sociology, urging scholars to consider how an array of statuses intersect to shape each person’s experiences and actions. Our goal is to lay out methods of intersectional research, providing a number of different blueprints for designing intersectional research, which can be adapted for different purposes. We consider quantitative, comparative, and qualitative strategies for carrying out intersectional research. The complexity of intersections have been researched, modeled, and analyzed in a variety of ways; 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.

Authors

• Joya Misra, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

• Celeste Curington, North Carolina State University

• Venus M. Green, Vanderbilt University