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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version Dixon-Román, Ezekiel J. Inheriting Possibility : Social Reproduction and Quantification in Education Minnesota : University of Minnesota Press,c2017 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ezekiel J Dixon-Román |
ISBN: | 9781452954424 1452954429 |
OCLC Number: | 1151798388 |
Description: | 1 online resource (268 pages) |
Contents: | Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Enumerating Difference beyond Anthropocentrism -- 1. Inheriting Possibility: Quantum Anthropologies and the Forces of Inheritance -- 2. Cultural Studies and Quantification: Toward a Diffractive Methodology -- 3. Parenting Performativities: Assemblages of "Difference" and the Materil-Diacursive Practices of Parenting -- 4. Inheriting Merit: The SAT as an Institutionalized Measuring Apparatus for Social Mobility -- Conclusion: Enfolding Possibilities -- Appendix A: Quantitative Methods and Results for Chapter 3 -- Appendix B: Quantitative Methods and Results for Chapter 4 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z. |
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"In Inheriting Possibility, Ezekiel J. Dixon-Roman establishes himself as a social philosopher, methodologist, and policy analyst. In short, he provides the two ingredients on which intellectuals since Marx have relied: theory and method. As a theorist, few scholars match his ability to deconstruct the false binary between nature and culture. As a methodologist, he possesses sophisticated, interpretive skills of psychometrics and measurement's epistemological limits. Dixon-Roman is not only the complete package, but stands out as one of the most creative intellectuals of our time."-Zeus Leonardo, author of Race Frameworks: A Multidimensional Theory of Racism and Education"How can a cultural theory of quantification become the starting point for a materialist analysis of socio-cultural forms of inheritance? Inheriting Possibility offers us compelling arguments for new ontologies of the number and radically challenges what we know about the use of statistics in education and socio-cultural analysis."-Dr. Luciana Parisi, Goldsmiths, University of London Read more...

