Bell Curve Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

Name: Bell Curve Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
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ISBN: 9780684824291

ISBN-10: 0684824299

ISBN-13: 9780684824291

Edition: 1996

Authors: Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles Murray

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The seminal book about IQ and class that ignited one of the most explosive controversies in decades, now updated with a new Afterword by Charles Murray Breaking new ground and old taboos, Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray tell the story of a society in transformation. At the top, a cognitive elite is forming in which the passkey to the best schools and the best jobs is no longer social background but high intelligence. At the bottom, the common denominator of the underclass is increasingly low intelligence rather than racial or social disadvantage. The Bell Curve describes the state of scientific knowledge about questions that have been on people's minds for years but have been…

Book details

List price: $28.99
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 1/10/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 912
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.904

Richard J. Herrnstein was Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University.



List of Illustrations


List of Tables


A Note to the Reader


Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Emergence of a Cognitive Elite



Cognitive Class and Education, 1900-1990



Cognitive Partitioning by Occupation



The Economic Pressure to Partition



Steeper Ladders, Narrower Gates



Cognitive Classes and Social Behavior



Poverty



Schooling



Unemployment, Idleness, and Injury



Family Matters



Welfare Dependency



Parenting



Crime



Civility and Citizenship



The National Context



Ethnic Differences in Cognitive Ability



Ethnic Inequalities in Relation to IQ



The Demography of Intelligence



Social Behavior and the Prevalence of Low Cognitive Ability



Living Together



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


Afterworld


Appendixes



Statistics for People Who Are Sure They Can't Learn Statistics



Technical Issues Regarding the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth



Technical Issues Regarding the Armed Forces Qualification Test as a Measure of IQ



Regression Analyses (rom Part II5 Supplemental Material for Chapter 136 Regression Analyses from Chapter 147 The Evolution of Affirmative Action in the Workplace


Notes


Bibliography


Index