Nature and Nurture in French Social Sciences, 1859–1914 and Beyond.
Title:
Nature and Nurture in French Social Sciences, 1859–1914 and Beyond.
Author:
Staum, Martin S.
ISBN:
9780773585942
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (278 pages)
Series:
McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas ; v.53
McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- 1 Introduction to the Nature-Nurture Debate -- 2 The Ethnographers -- 3 The Anthropologists -- 4 Ribot and Psychological Heredity -- 5 Heredity and Milieu in the Revue philosophique -- 6 Alfred Binet: From Measuring Heads to Testing Intelligence -- 7 The Non-Durkheimian Sociologists -- 8 Reorientation of Institutions -- 9 Echoes in the Vichy Era -- 10 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
The relative importance of heredity or environmental influence remains an enduring, hotly debated issue, while the legacy of scientific racism and sexism still tarnishes the twenty-first century. This unique study analyzes how theories of inherited difference - including race and gender - affected French social scientists in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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