Intelligence and How to Get it: Why Schools and Cultures Count (Paperback)
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Short Description for Intelligence and How to Get it From the research of The Bell Curve to the more controversy surrounding geneticist James Watson's statements, one factor has been consistently left out of the equation: culture. Intellect is not primarily genetic but is principally determined by societal influences. This book promises to reignite the debate over society's role in nurturing IQ.
Full description- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Published: 19 March 2010
- Format: Paperback 320 pages
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- Categories: Social & Cultural Anthropology | Social, Group Or Collective Psychology | Cognition & Cognitive Psychology | Intelligence & Reasoning
- ISBN 13: 9780393337693 ISBN 10: 0393337693
- Sales rank: 144,595
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Full description for Intelligence and How to Get it
From the damning research of The Bell Curve to the more recent controversy surrounding geneticist James Watson's statements, one factor has been consistently left out of the equation: culture. In the tradition of Stephen Jay Gould's "The Mismeasure of Man", Richard E. Nisbett takes on the idea of intelligence as biologically fixed, asserting that culture matters most in shaping our future. Intellect is not primarily genetic but is principally determined by societal influences. As the first major work to stake out such firm far-reaching positions on the central role of culture in moulding cognition, this book promises to reignite the fierce debate over society's role and responsibilitiy in nurturing IQ, with vast implications for structuring the educational system, the economy and society at large.
