Intersectional Inequality : Race, Class, Test Scores, and Poverty

Ragin, Charles C.; Fiss, Peer C.

ISBN 10: 022641440X / ISBN 13: 9780226414409

Editore: University of Chicago Press, 2016

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• Titolo: Intersectional Inequality : Race, Class, Test Scores, and Poverty
• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 022641440X
• ISBN 13: 9780226414409
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

For over twenty-five years, Charles C. Ragin has developed Qualitative Comparative Analysis and related set-analytic techniques as a means of bridging qualitative and quantitative methods of research. Now, with Peer C. Fiss, Ragin uses these impressive new tools to unravel the varied conditions affecting life chances.

Ragin and Fiss begin by taking up the controversy regarding the relative importance of test scores versus socioeconomic background on life chances, a debate that has raged since the 1994 publication of Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray’s TheBell Curve. In contrast to prior work, Ragin and Fiss bring an intersectional approach to the evidence, analyzing the different ways that advantages and disadvantages combine in their impact on life chances. Moving beyond controversy and fixed policy positions, the authors propose sophisticated new methods of analysis to underscore the importance of attending to configurations of race, gender, family background, educational achievement, and related conditions when addressing social inequality in America today.

Informazioni sull?autore

Charles C. Ragin is Chancellor&;s Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of many books, including Redesigning Social Inquiry, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Peer C. Fiss is associate professor of management and organization at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He is coeditor of Configurational Theory and Methods in Organizational Research.