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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... primary agent for validating Plato's myth. This book is about the scientific version of Plato's tale. The general argument may be called biological determinism. It holds that shared behavioral norms, and the social and economic ...
... primary criterion for unilinear ranking of human groups, and the attempt to explain criminal behavior as a biological atavism reflected in the apish morphology of murderers and other miscreants. What craniometry was for the nineteenth ...
... primary data. They write, as I cannot adequately, about social context, biography, or general intellectual history. Scientists are used to analyzing the data of their peers, but few are sufficiently interested in history to apply the ...
... primary source of renewed attention. We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit ...
... primary line of attack for more than a century. In discussing the first biological theory supported by extensive quantitative data—early nineteenth-century craniometry —I must begin by posing a question of causality: did the ...
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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 | |