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Title: The Social Relevance of Visible Physical Characteristics for Educational Outcomes
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Branigan, Amelia R. |
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The Social Relevance of Visible Physical Characteristics for Educational Outcomes Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, 2014 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB); Body Mass Index (BMI); Educational Attainment; Grade Point Average (GPA)/Grades; National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES); Obesity; Racial Differences; Skin Tone Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In this dissertation, I use educational performance outcomes to assess the sociological relevance of two visible physical characteristics--skin color and body fat--addressing challenges of accurate measurement and of variation in the salience of these characteristics across cohorts. I argue that the visible body is itself a social fact, and that by omitting physical variation from quantitative analysis of inequality, social scientists render invisible systems of inequality that persist within categories such as sex and race, seeing only disparities between them. Through three studies using large national datasets, I demonstrate such within-sex and within-race variation in educational attainment and achievement by phenotype, and offer suggestions for better engaging the visible body in sociological research on inequality. |
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Branigan, Amelia R. The Social Relevance of Visible Physical Characteristics for Educational Outcomes. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, 2014. |