The bell curve
About this book
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 considered too sensitive to talk about openly -- among them, IQ's relationship to crime, unemployment, welfare, child neglect, poverty, and illegitimacy; ethnic differences in intelligence; trends in fertility among women of different levels of intelligence; and what policy can do -- and cannot do -- to compensate for differences in intelligence. Brilliantly argued and meticulously documented, The Bell Curve is the essential first step in coming to grips with the nation's social problems.
Presents the view that low intelligence is the cause of many of America's social problems.
Subjects
- 1995 i-666
- 305.9/082
- aspectos sociales
- aspect social
- bf431 .h398 1994
- bf 431 h568b 1994
- cociente de la inteligencia
- cognición
- educational psychology
- environment
- erfelijkheid en omgeving
- etnische groepen
- genetics
- hérédité et milieu
- history
- intellect
- intellektueller
- intelligence
- intelligence--genetics
- intelligence levels
- intelligence levels--social aspects
- intelligence levels--social aspects--united states
- intelligence levels--united states
- intelligence tests
- intelligentie
- klassenstruktur
- nature and nurture
- new york times reviewed
- niveau intellectuel
- physiology
- psicopedagogía
- psychopédagogie
- social aspects
- social aspects of intelligence levels
- social class
- sociale klassen
- sozialverhalten
- united states, social conditions