Title

The bell curve : intelligence and class structure in American life

Description

Cognitive class and education, 1900-1990 -- Cognitive partitioning by occupation -- The economic pressure to partition -- Steeper ladders, narrower gates -- Poverty -- Schooling -- Unemployment, idleness, and injury -- Family matters -- Welfare dependency -- Parenting -- Crime -- Civility and citizenship -- Ethnic differences in cognitive ability -- Ethnic inequalities in relation to IQ -- The demography of intelligence -- Social behavior and the prevalence of low cognitive ability -- Raising cognitive ability -- The leveling of American education -- Affirmative action in higher education -- Affirmative action in the workplace -- The way we are headed -- A place for everyone.

Identifier

506549

29146739

Creator

Herrnstein, Richard J

Murray, Charles

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

1994

Program air date: December 4, 1994.

Publisher

Free Press

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Notes on half-title: Appendices-110 pages; Notes to pages-108 pages; Index-12 pages; 845 pages; 94 illustrations; 14 tables. Underlinings/notes: Underlinings: Lamb marks passages concerned with intelligence/racism; equal rights; evolution; development of tests of intelligence; Walter Lippmann's reaction to such tests. 1960s/70s controversial to see connections between genes and intelligence. 1990s classicists, revisionists, radicals. IQ not synonym for human excellence. 21st century cognitive ability--decisive dividing force. Cognitive Elite. Relationship between cognitive ability/job performance greater than previously thought. Since 1971 prohibited from hiring based on intelligence tests. Cognitive ability is a function of genes/environment. Cannot predict what a person will do from his IQ score. Intelligence responsible for differences in socioeconomic status differences. Low intelligence stronger precursor of poverty than low socioeconomic background. Almost no whites with IQ in top 1/4 fail to get high school education. People with low IQs regardless of wealth will finish college. Low IQ risk factor for criminality. At lower educational levels, woman's intelligence predicts whether she will bear an illegitimate child. East Asians score higher than white Americans. Average black tests higher than 16% of whites. Ashkenazi Jews test highest. IQs declining. Notes: 2 camps heredity v. egalitarianism," "Jensen 1969," "William Shockley," "Hernstein 1971," "Leon Kamin."

Subject

"Intellect"

"Nature and nurture"

"Intelligence levels--Social aspects--United States"

"Educational psychology"

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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