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Intersectional Inequality: Race, Class, Test Scores, and Poverty
Contributor(s): Ragin, Charles C. (Author), Fiss, Peer C. (Author)
ISBN: 022641437X     ISBN-13: 9780226414379
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
OUR PRICE:   $98.01  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: December 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Research
- Social Science | Methodology
- Social Science | Poverty & Homelessness
Dewey: 305
LCCN: 2016023259
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 9.1" (0.80 lbs) 192 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
 
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Publisher Description:
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.

Contributor Bio(s): Ragin, Charles C.: - Charles C. Ragin is Chancellor's Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine.
Fiss, Peer C.: - Peer C. Fiss is associate professor of management and organization at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.