Inventing intelligence : how America came to worship IQ
- Title
- Inventing intelligence : how America came to worship IQ / Elaine E. Castles.
- Published by
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2012.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- x, 197 p.; 25 cm.
- Subject
- Contents
- Worshipping the altar of IQ -- Intelligence in historical context: the colonial experience -- Science in nineteenth-century America: intellect, intelligence, and the science of man -- Merit and social status in nineteenth-century America -- Phrenology: a precursor to IQ testing -- Intelligence and its measurement -- IQ testing, social control, and merit -- Democratic ideology and IQ testing -- A century of IQ testing: the more things change, the more they stay the same -- Toward a broader conception of intelligence -- Toward a more balanced perspective on heredity and IQ -- Toward a more equitable conception of merit.
- Call number
- JFE 12-7776
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Author
- Castles, Elaine E.
- Title
- Inventing intelligence : how America came to worship IQ / Elaine E. Castles.
- Imprint
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- LCCN
- 2012005006
- ISBN
- 9781440803376 (hardcopy : acid-free paper)
- 1440803374 (hardcopy : acid-free paper)
- Research call number
- JFE 12-7776