The Mismeasure of Man (Revised and Expanded)W. W. Norton & Company, 17 ביוני 2006 - 448 עמודים The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve. When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits.And yet the idea of innate limits—of biology as destiny—dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so effectively anticipated and thoroughly undermined by Stephen Jay Gould. In this edition Dr. Gould has written a substantial new introduction telling how and why he wrote the book and tracing the subsequent history of the controversy on innateness right through The Bell Curve. Further, he has added five essays on questions of The Bell Curve in particular and on race, racism, and biological determinism in general. These additions strengthen the book's claim to be, as Leo J. Kamin of Princeton University has said, "a major contribution toward deflating pseudo-biological 'explanations' of our present social woes." |
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... important and by no means neglected subject. (I have a personal horror of derivative writing, and have never dabbled—with one small exception as a personal favor to a dear, older, and revered colleague—in the genre of textbooks; life is ...
... importance of this endeavor, this third aspect of my frame for the mismeasure of man. God dwells in the details; so does the devil. Why. revise. The. Mismeasure. of. Man. after. fifteen. years? I regard the critique of biological ...
... important of course, the possibility of amelioration, or even cure, supplied by identification of causes. But all these genuine discoveries involve definite and specific pathologies, diseases, or conditions that thwart what we may still ...
... important part of the context for The Mismeasure of Man.) But my claim is not absurdly anachronistic for another more important reason. The Bell Curve presents nothing new. This eight hundred page manifesto is little more than a long ...
... important debates in the social sciences, and this book should be required reading for students and practitioners alike.” The book has sold strongly ever since publication and has now surpassed 250,000 copies, plus translations into ten ...
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monogenism and polygenism | |
Samuel George Mortonempiricist of polygeny | |
The American school and slavery | |
Two Case Studies on the Apishness | |
Epilogue | |
Charles Spearman and general intelligence | |
Cyril Burt and the hereditarian synthesis | |
A Positive Conclusion | |
Epilogue | |
Ghosts of Bell Curves past | |
Three Centuries Perspectives on Race and Racism | |
The moral state of Tahitiand of Darwin | |
Bibliography | |