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Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Gould (1981, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393014894
ISBN-139780393014891
eBay Product ID (ePID)1961350
Product Key Features
Number of Pages1 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameMismeasure of Man
SubjectGeneral, Anatomy, Assessment, Testing & Measurement, Testing & Measurement
Publication Year1981
FeaturesReprint
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaEducation, Science, Psychology, Medical
AuthorStephen Gould
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight20 Oz
Item Length1 in
Item Width1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN81-038430
Dewey Edition20
TitleLeadingThe
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal153.9
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisWhen 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, in a separate section at the end, on questions of The Bell Curve in particular and on race, racism, and biological determinism in general. These additions strengthen the claim of this book to be, as Leo J. Kamin of Princeton University has said, "a major contribution toward deflating pseudobiological 'explanations' of our present social woes".
LC Classification NumberBF431
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