Christine Ma, Michael Schapira

An Analysis of Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray's The Bell Curve

Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Published in 1994, The Bell Curve caused uproar. Herrnstein and Murray claim that intelligence is the key factor in determining success in life and that it is genetic and, more controversially still, that some ethnic groups are more intelligent than others.

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Produktdetails

• The Macat Library
• Verlag: Macat International Limited
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 126mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 132g
• ISBN-13: 9781912128488
• ISBN-10: 1912128489
• Artikelnr.: 48850711

Autorenporträt

Dr Christine Ma received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2011. She was then a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University in the Psychology Department and the Harvard Kennedy School. She is currently an Assistant Professor of psychology at the Univeristy of Laverne, California. Michael Schapira is an associate professor at the The School of Computer Science and Engineering, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Inhaltsangabe

Ways in to the Text Who were Herrnstein and Murray? What does The Bell
Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life Say? Why does The
Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life Matter?
Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context
Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's
Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary
Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3:
Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module
11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms
People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited